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  • adjective Not starched.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ starched

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Examples

  • On his way back along the Broom Road, under the lighted lamps that marked the entrance to the palace grounds, Grief encountered a short, rotund gentleman, in unstarched ducks, smooth-shaven and of florid complexion, who was just emerging.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • On his way back along the Broom Road, under the lighted lamps that marked the entrance to the palace grounds, Grief encountered a short, rotund gentleman, in unstarched ducks, smooth-shaven and of florid complexion, who was just emerging.

    The Feathers of the Sun 1912

  • ON HIS way back along the Broom Road, under the lighted lamps that marked the entrance to the palace grounds, Grief encountered a short, rotund gentleman of florid complexion, in unstarched ducks, who was just emerging.

    The Feathers of the Sun 1912

  • This task consisted of ironing all the unstarched portions of the shirts.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • The captain and mate were in thin undershirts and unstarched duck pants, while the supercargo still held in his hands the undershirt he was reluctant to put on.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • A refreshingly unstarched 63, Ms. von Furstenberg, with her memoirs, her bustling civic involvement, her mysterious marriage to mogul Barry Diller, appears to be at the peak of her game.

    She's Mayoress of Tent City! 2009

  • He walked out of the bathroom in a soft, unstarched dhoti and kurta, feeling something within him unfurl at last.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • He walked out of the bathroom in a soft, unstarched dhoti and kurta, feeling something within him unfurl at last.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • He walked out of the bathroom in a soft, unstarched dhoti and kurta, feeling something within him unfurl at last.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Like the butlers of yesteryear, these major-domos are apt to look upon an unstarched collar with a somewhat jaundiced eye.

    Return Of The Hotel Butler 2008

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