a type of stiff cloth made especially from cotton or linen, used in the past for covering books and for making clothes stiffer (舊時用作書皮或衣服襯裏的)硬棉布,硬麻布,硬襯布 Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a kind of fine linen or cotton cloth): from Old French boquerant, perhaps from Bukhoro, a city in the republic of Uzbekistan in central Asia.