Significados de stiffly starched en inglés

The door opened, and a prim creature stiffly starched stood before Mrs Swann.

His stiffly starched bulging trousers disappeared under the stiff ruffles of a three-quarter waist.

His shirt and shirt-collar were stiffly starched, and his coat-tail stood out boldly behind him.

He wore a buff waistcoat, a stiffly starched cambric cravat, and a faultless shirt collar.

The door was opened by a stiffly starched maid.

At ten-thirty the procession started; gentlemen in their tiles, ladies in their furbelows, children stiffly starched.

He was so comfortable himself and she was so stiffly starched, so relentless of collar and cap.

She wore a checked blue apron, stiffly starched, and she was holding it up by the corners.

She was a large, pretty-faced woman in a stiffly starched purple muslin, which spread widely around her.

Then his ruff was triple-banded, and so stiffly starched, that the head was fixed immovably amidst its plaits.

A pair of white duck pantaloons, stiffly starched, were strapped under a pair of substantial, well-greased, cowhide boots.

Her gown was dark calico, stiffly starched, and made according to the durable and comfortable pattern of her school-days.

We were the only folks who marched off that plane wearing barely worn, hardly faded, stiffly starched battle dress.

She was a little woman, with clear-cut features, and brown hair drawn backward under a cap of lace very stiffly starched.

With a rustle of stiffly starched garments Miss Mehitable took her departure, carefully closing the door and avoiding the appearance of haste.

Sure enough, as she stepped out wearing the stiffly starched uniform, one of the store clerks glanced over and started toward them.