Definition of "starching" []

• Present participle of starch. (verb)

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• "Elizabethan men and women began to wear grotesque ruffs about their necks as soon as they learned the art of starching from the Dutch, so now they began to decorate their writing with the conceits of Lyly."
• "If you will indite a letter to ----, putting spirit into her, and telling her that this horrid ironing and starching is very possible, you will do a great good, for, as ---- said, 'Poor thing, she is not spiritful, and is easily frightened.'"
• "Diamond Fabcare provides dry cleaning, laundry, starching, ironing and other services, the statement said."