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lockram

[ lok-ruhm ]

noun

, Obsolete.
  1. a rough-textured linen cloth.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lockram1

1250–1300; Middle English lokeram, lokerham, after Locronan, village in Brittany where the cloth was made; perhaps conformed to buckram

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