starched

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil simple past and past participle of starch
2. sıfat Of a garment: having had starch applied.

   “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.”

3. sıfat Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.

   “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?”