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▪ I. lockram1 Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈlɒkrəm|
Forms: 5 lokerham, 6 locram, lo(c)queram, lockerom, locorum, lokeram, 6–7 locrum, lockrome, 7 lokram, 7–9 lock(a)rum, 6–9 lockeram, 6– lockram.
[ad. F. locrenan, from Locronan (lit. ‘cell of St. Ronan’), the name of a village in Brittany, where the fabric was formerly made. For the form cf. buckram.]
1. A linen fabric of various qualities for wearing apparel and household use. Also, an article made of lockram; in pl., pieces of lockram.
1483–4in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Acc. (1896) 35 Pro vna vlna de lokerham ad emendand. diuersas albas, vjd. 1520Sir R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot's Gov. (1883) I. App. A. 313 Lynnen cloth of canvas and lokeram for shetes and smockes and shirtes. 1552in Surrey Church Goods (1869) 16 One old surplice of loqueram. a1592Greene Jas. IV, iv. iii, Let the linings be of tenpenny lockram. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 224 The Kitchin Malkin pinnes Her richest Lockram 'bout her reechie necke. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. i. (1668) 42 Spread it thin upon new Lockram or Leather somewhat bigger than the grief. 1666Lond. Gaz. No. 38/1 Two Barks of this Town laden with Lockerams from Jersey and Guernsey. 1692Ibid. No. 2810/4 A considerable quantity of Locrums and Dowlas. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) II. 245 The sisters wear Lockram, and buy it of him. 1820Scott Abbot ii, Why should I bend to her?—is it because her kirtle is of silk, and mine of blue lockeram?
2. attrib.
1554Bury Wills (Camden) 147 To Mother Huntman a new rayle and a lockerom kercher. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle ii. 755 His lockram bande sewde to his hempen shirt. 1632Brome North. Lasse iv. iii. Wks. 1873 III. 74 Let all the good you intended me, be a lockram Coife, a blew Gown, a Wheel, and a clean Whip. 1640H. Glapthorne Wit in a Constable iv. Wks. 1874 I. 217 Thou thoughtst, because I did weare Lokram shirts Ide no wit. 1766Entick London IV. 129 A lockram shift.
b. lockram jaws, jaws covered with flesh as thin as lockram. Hence lockram-jawed a.
1682New News fr. Bedlam 36 Their Lockram Jaws we'l rent and tear. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Lockram-jaw'd, Thin, Lean, Sharp-visag'd. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. vi. 7 After he'd made a little Pause, Again he stretch'd his Lockram Jaws. 1735Dyche & Pardon Dict., Lockram-jaw'd, a Person of a long, lean, meagre Visage or Countenance.
▪ II. lockram2 dial. and U.S.|ˈlɒkrəm|
Also lockum, lockrum.
[? Figurative use of prec.; cf. bombast, fustian.
(But cf. logaram dial., in the Eng. Dial. Dict. treated as a corruption of logarithm).]
A pack of gibberish. Also quasi-adj.
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 157 What has all this long, lockum story to do with your trade? 1837Haliburton Clockm., Slick's Let. 8 As for that long lochrum about Mr. Everett,..there aint a word of truth in it. 1855― Nature & Hum. Nat. I. 14 In Congress no man can speak or read an oration more than an hour long; but he can send the whole lockrum, includin' what he didn't say, to the papers. 1854in A. E. Baker Northants Gloss. |