Lockram (noun)
lok-rum
(historic)A type of linen fabric of various grades used for clothing and household items; an item made from this. Also (sometimes in plural): a quantity of this fabric.
Middle English. From Locronan, the name of a village in Brittany, France (where the fabric was made), apparently with remodelling after buckram.
Example sentences
“lockram shirts and rope belts.”
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