starched's Usage Examples:

A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of girls' voices came from the adjoining room.

The girl's dress has a full flounced skirt supported by numerous stiff horsehair and starched petticoats.

flounced skirt supported by numerous stiff horsehair and starched petticoats.

Classically Fulham, this place is all starched linen tablecloths, pretty outdoor courtyards and sparkly glassware.

Great care was taken in the laundering and tying of his stiffly starched cravat.

He wears a starched and gathered ruff developed from the shirt neck frill after about 1560.

And it would contribute toward finally dispelling the starched collars and ivory tower image better associated with Brideshead Revisited.

hieratic faceless figures viewed from a child's perspective, impossibly pristine in their immaculate, starched white aprons.

sitting ramrod straight in her big, old chair, chin held high above the starched, white cartwheel of her ruff.

Sitting ramrod straight in her big, old chair, chin held high above the starched, white cartwheel of her ruff.

Synonyms:

amylum, Otaheite arrowroot, cassava starch, arrowroot, Otaheite arrowroot starch, polyose, manioca, polysaccharide, amyloid, arum, cassava, manioc, cornflour, cornstarch, sago,

Antonyms:

unscrew, slacken, relax, stay, resolution,