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
“Kids are now wearing their botas to school or their tejanas and starched jeans.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
History well told is rarely dry, yet so many tales of court intrigue either conflate seriousness with the stiffness of starched collars or bloat the action with too many anachronisms.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
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
He could just imagine himself running down to the field, wearing his starched white shirt and pretending he wasn’t, begging to play with Willis Hurd.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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