buckram - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

buckram: a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing; stiffen with or as with buckram; "buckram the skirt"

prim collapse: dress primly; contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"; assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"

unrelaxed collapse: nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips

rigid collapse: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"; designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure; incapable of compromise or flexibility

starchy collapse: rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"; consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods"

taut collapse: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"; subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow"

pomp collapse: ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"

ceremonial collapse: marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb"

wooden collapse: lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"; made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

ceremony collapse: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony"; the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"; a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"

gravity collapse: a solemn and dignified feeling; (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein

stiffness collapse: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity"; the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck"; the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend

ritual collapse: stereotyped behavior; any customary observance or practice; the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies; of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals; "a ritual dance of Haiti"; "sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer; of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; "ritual killing"

dignity collapse: the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"; formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity"; high office or rank or station; "he respected the dignity of the emissaries"

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