starched
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Cipriano, 35, a man of starched white shirts, neatly-parted hair and wire-rimmed glasses, resembles a Brooks Brothers mannequin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
“The Gilded Age” has always plied high-toned melodrama as its chief asset, but Season 3 ripens the starched formality of previous episodes into succulence.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
The software used by the engineers at the truss manufacturing plant allowed the designer to make the trusses stiffer than an old-fashioned starched shirt collar.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Out go the neckties and starched shirts; in come short-sleeved polos and linen shirts, even the occasional Hawaiian.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
The African diplomats were taken on tours of the North Carolina Mutual offices, where they were shown row after row of black workers in starched white collars.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
