Usually means: Treated with starch for stiffness.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. starched: Merriam-Webster
  2. starched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. starched: Vocabulary.com
  4. starched: Wordnik
  5. starched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. starched: Wiktionary
  7. starched: Dictionary.com
  8. starched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Starched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. starched: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Starched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. starched: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. starched: FreeDictionary.org
  14. starched: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. starched: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starched: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starched: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starched: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starched: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Starched: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See starch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a garment: having had starch applied.
adjective:  Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.

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