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View definitions for starched

starched

adjective as in inflexible

adjective as in starchy

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“Kids are now wearing their botas to school or their tejanas and starched jeans.”

As he strides through the underground labyrinth in the hull of the $2-billion, spacecraft-looking Intuit Dome — wearing snug black jeans; a heavily starched, leopard-print jacket; and perfectly coiffed silver hair — you’d think he owns the place.

New York City police officers milled around in their caps and starched white shirts.

On her head a starched cap, with veils flowing down her back.

A stocky man dressed in a starched white kurta, Karmarkar looks the part as Indian Home Minister Amit Shah in Article 370 - the film named after the constitutional provision that conferred special privileges on the Himalayan region, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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