Starched

Quick meaning: Starched is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of starch.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of starch.

More Meanings

1. Of a garment: having had starch applied.
2. Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.

Example Sentences

‘[…] CD is a fair-enough scholar but starched like my grand-daddy’s collar.’

And while his signature starched collar and fingerless gloves are yet to make an appearance, his looks are already topped off with another of his soon-to-be trademarks: a pair of dark aviator sunglasses.

Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a stiff formal Gait, a Singularity of Manners and Habit, or any affected Modes of Speech, different from the reasonable Part of Mankind?

I was not a little startled at recognising in his companions that very Morris on whose account I had been summoned before Justice Inglewood, and Mr MacVittie the merchant, at whose starched and severe aspect I had recoiled on the preceding day.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stiff, freshly, starchy, crisp, farinaceous, starchlike.

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