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- verb Present participle of
starch .
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Examples
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Elizabethan men and women began to wear grotesque ruffs about their necks as soon as they learned the art of starching from the Dutch, so now they began to decorate their writing with the conceits of Lyly.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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If you will indite a letter to ----, putting spirit into her, and telling her that this horrid ironing and starching is very possible, you will do a great good, for, as ---- said, 'Poor thing, she is not spiritful, and is easily frightened.'
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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To be fair, his valet was more at home starching cravats and polishing boots, but his whimpering was beginning to grate.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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On his bare knees on the rocky river bank, washing and starching the clothes at least nine times, he gives generously of his time.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Ecstasy and Agony of India -- From the Political to the Tribal Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2012
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To be fair, his valet was more at home starching cravats and polishing boots, but his whimpering was beginning to grate.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Do a study on the Chinese Laundry in America and you will see how these energetic people made a bustling business out of washing, starching, ironing and mending, bringing the labor to a professional status.
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Do a study on the Chinese Laundry in America and you will see how these energetic people made a bustling business out of washing, starching, ironing and mending, bringing the labor to a professional status.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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To be fair, his valet was more at home starching cravats and polishing boots, but his whimpering was beginning to grate.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Diamond Fabcare provides dry cleaning, laundry, starching, ironing and other services, the statement said.
Jyothy Labs Unit Acquires Laundry Company Rumman Ahmed of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
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Little conversations between Emperor Zhark and Mrs. Tiggy-winkle comparing starching on cuffs.
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