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Fine cotton cloth known as bokeram (derived from Bokhara; the cloth was originally imported from Asia) was used for garments, linings and banners.
Of the ultimate etymology nothing is really known. Some refer to Italian bucherare 'to pierce full of holes', supposing that the name was first given to a kind of muslin or net ... Reiske (in Constantin. Porphyrog. ed. Niebuhr II. 530) proposes Arabic abū qirām 'pannus cum intextis figuris', but he does not say where he found this compound; the simple qirām is of doubtful meaning, the Arab lexicographers quoted in the Qāmūs giving the various renderings 'red veil', 'striped and figured woollen cloth', 'thin veil' ... Others suggest derivation Bokhara, or Bulgaria, but this does not agree with the early French forms.(Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
Fine cotton cloth known as bokeram (derived from Bokhara; the cloth was originally imported from Asia) was used for garments, linings and banners.
