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.”
Lurdan (noun) lur-dn A lazy, stupid, loutish fellow. 1250–1300; Middle English, Middle French lourdin dullard, equivalent to lourd heavy, dull (more…)
