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Meanings of starched in English

Of cloth: Stiffened with starch.

Usage of starched in English
1
Please bring me my baby.' She clutched at the nurse's starched uniform.
Book of lost threads
2
A little girl in a starched pinafore was sent for the rope.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
3
In plain talk, the British are uniquely buttoned up and starched stiff.
The Guardian
4
A young woman in a crisp starched dress appeared at the threshold.
Rakes and radishes
5
Inside I was met by a nurse in a crisply starched uniform.
Tell me, pretty maiden
6
Sweat soaked the starched shirt I'd put on a few hours earlier.
With friends like these
7
Inside was a single bed, tightly made with starched and pressed linen.
Sins of the Fathers
8
She had a bed piled full of starched clothes white as snow.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
9
This was perhaps because she disliked to rumple her beautifully starched skirts.
Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
10
A rather pretty Arab girl in a starched khaki dress served coffee.
White Hunter, Black Heart
11
The creases from the laundry jutted up from the shirt's starched surface.
Magic terror: seven tales
12
Flora went first, with a light little tilt of her starched skirts.
Young Lucretia and Other Stories
13
I smelled starched cotton, male sweat, and the familiar Hugo Boss cologne.
Devil Bones
14
Anvil Harp wore trustee's clothing that was cleaned, pressed, and heavily starched.
Gods go begging
15
A man, a stranger in a starched army uniform, stood with him.
Dangerous Women
16
Her hair was covered with a scarf of starched material, also grey.
Melnitz
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Starched through the time
Starched across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common