"starched" meaning in All languages combined

See starched on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more starched [comparative], most starched [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} starched (comparative more starched, superlative most starched)
  1. Of a garment: having had starch applied.
    Sense id: en-starched-en-adj-5vUnjp9S
  2. Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.
    Sense id: en-starched-en-adj-96R9h7Hz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 91 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 89 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 92 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: starchedness Related terms: cornstarched

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} starched
  1. simple past and past participle of starch Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: starch
    Sense id: en-starched-en-verb-~MMHhrel
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      "form": "more starched",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:",
          "text": "I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned \"first\" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.",
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          "ref": "1712, Jonathan Swift, “An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, volume 1, Dublin: George Faulkner, published 1751, pages 102-103:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Animadversions on Some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 217:",
          "text": "A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum—something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation.",
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          "ref": "1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 245:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 107:",
          "text": "‘[…] CD is a fair-enough scholar but starched like my grand-daddy’s collar.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Animadversions on Some of the Writers who have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 217:",
          "text": "A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum—something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 245:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 107:",
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