The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unstarch \Un*starch"\, v. t. [Pref. un- + starch.] To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.
Usage examples of "unstarch".
His flowing unstarched shirt was as usual spotless, he wore a flower in the ribbon of the hat carried jauntily in his hand, and about his person in the form of handkerchief and faja were those touches of bright colour by means of which he so irresistibly attracted the eye of the fair.
The soft, unstarched collar of his shirt was a great improvement over the stiff high collar and cravat he had been wearing since he came to England.
A kind of dinner-jacket with coarsely woven silk on the lapels was substituted for the tail-coat, and the shirt was made of heavy, unstarched linen, and had a soft collar attached to it.
Tredlow, a rumpled little man in wrinkled breeches and a poorly tied, unstarched neckcloth, paused in the act of dusting a statue of a lascivious-looking Pan and peered at them through the lenses of his spectacles.
Edmund Tredlow, a rumpled little man in wrinkled breeches and a poorly tied, unstarched neckcloth, paused in the act of dusting a statue of a lascivious-looking Pan and peered at them through the lenses of his spectacles.