Citations:starched


 * 1) Of or pertaining to a garment which has had starch applied.
 * 1852 Behold, then, Topsy, washed and shorn of all the little braided tails wherein her heart had delighted, arrayed in a clean gown, with well-starched apron, standing reverently before Miss Ophelia, with an expression of solemnity well befitting a funeral. — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter 20.
 * 1) Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.
 * 1900 She was pretty, graceful, rich in the timidity born of uncertainty, and with a something childlike in her large eyes which captured the fancy of this starched and conventional poser among men. — Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Chapter 1.