What is "starched"

Usage examples of "starched".

Giancarlo Lo Manto handed a dark-haired woman in a blue starched suit his boarding pass and then quietly disappeared down the walkway of flight 614.

There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.

Vegas its colorful reputation, although they were there in force, but preppy types from UNLV in starched golf shirts who knew they could treat anything with breasts like dirt and still get laid because they were so damned hot and hunky.

A neatly tied white cravat, decently starched linen, dark blue superfine coat, buff-colored waistcoat with just a hint of stripes, and a pair of pale fawn pantaloons did wonders for his appearance.

She slid away, her old-fashioned starched apron crackling, and presently Charity did as she suggested, tapping on his door and whisking in, to pause at the sight of him sitting back in his chair with his eyes shut.

Marcus got downstairs, he found Dec perched on the hood of his BMW, dressed in khakis and a starched blue oxford.

And the beds were squared-down at the corners, the starched white sheets like drumskins, the pillows round and hard.

Prew grinned, his starched campaign hat pushed back to show 572 his lank black hair that might have come from some forgotten Cherokee among his own Kentucky ancestors.

Eisean saw a bright purple justicoat and starched, ruffled ascot with a monstrous, hideous, mummified head floating above it, only scraps of thin flesh covering bulbous eyes and the gaping, horrible, toothless maw of its mouth.

The man was an African, almost certainly Mashona, for he wore the crisply starched uniform of the regular Zimbabwean army and a the red staff tabs and stars of a Brigadier-General.

The man was an African, almost certainly Mashona, for he wore the crisply starched uniform of the regular Zimbabwean army and the red staff tabs and stars of a Brigadier-General.

He did all a young lad should do--bought himself an accordion, a shirt with a starched front, a loud-colored necktie, overshoes, and a cane.

The lady of the house, in bustle and beaded dress with a rope of pearls, held the hand of a small boy with long curls, lace collar and starched sailor suit.

After denouncing the predaceous Interests he relapsed into an attitude of Meditation, with the Chin on the starched Front, very much like a Steel Engraving of Daniel Webster.

Miyuki seldom left her pristine computer lab at Ryukyu University, and was rarely spotted without her starched and pressed lab coat.