From It., bucherare, to pierce full of holes,
which might be if bucherare could be used in the sense of puntare, or
the French piquer; Marsh connects it with the bucking of linen; and
D'Avezac thinks it was a stuff that took its name from Bokhara. If the
name be local, as so many names of stuffs are, the French form rather
suggests Bulgaria. [Heyd, II. 703, says that Buckram (Bucherame) was
principally manufactured at Erzinjan (Armenia), Mush, and Mardin
(Kurdistan), Ispahan (Persia), and in India, etc. It was shipped to the
west at Constantinople, Satalia, Acre, and Famagusta; the name is derived
from Bokhara. - H. C.]
(Della Decima, III. 18, 149, 65, 74, 212, etc.; IV. 4, 5, 6, 212;
Reiske's Notes to Const. Porphyrogen. II.; D'Avezac, p. 524; Vocab.
Univ. Ital.; Franc.-Michel, Recherches, etc. II. 29 seqq.; Philobiblon
Soc. Miscell. VI.; Marsh's Wedgwood's Etym. Dict. sub voce.)
[Illustration: Castle of Baiburt.]
NOTE 2. - Arziron is ERZRUM, which, even in Tournefort's time, the Franks
called Erzeron (III. 126); [it was named Garine, then
Theodosiopolis, in honour of Theodosius the Great; the present name was
given by the Seljukid Turks, and it means "Roman Country"; it was taken by
Chinghiz Khan and Timur, but neither kept it long. Odorico (Cathay, I.
p. 46), speaking of this city, says it "is mighty cold." (See also on the
low temperature of the place, Tournefort, Voyage du Levant, II.
