starched
Speech parts
1. starched - Adjective
2. starched - Verb
Meaning
of Starch
Stiffened with starch.
Stiff; precise; formal.
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... she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...
A little apish hat, couched fast to the pate, like an oyster; French cambric ruffs, deep with a witness, starched to the purpose: Delicate in speech; quaint in array; conceited in all points; In courtly guiles, a passing singular odd man.
The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.
He starched Gregor Gillespie with a head kick in November.
In the National Statuary Hall, the generals immediately made a beeline for him, a solid block of old men squeezed into starched collars and boards.