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Clear-starch. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Clear-starch v. To stiffen and dress linen with clear or colorless starch.

1 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 37, ¶ 8. If the said Servant can Clear-Starch, Lisp and Tread softly. Ibid. (1712), Spect., No. 264, ¶ 2. A Taylor’s Widow, who washes and can clear-starch his Bands.

2   Hence Clear-starched ppl. a. (often fig.); Clear-starching vbl. sb.; Clear-starcher, one who clear-starches, esp. as a vocation.

3 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 118, ¶ 8. Your Petitioner was bred a Clear-starcher and Sempstress.

4 1727.  Fielding, Love in Sev. Masq., III. vii. We teach our daughters … that good old English art of clear-starching, instead of that heathenish gambol called dancing.

5 1774.  Westm. Mag., II. 9. Their stiff, clear-starch’d virtue won’t get a cull.

6 1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 213. A fine plain clear-starched caul.

7 1855.  Mrs. Gaskell, North & S., ix. I am getting to be a famous clear-starcher.

8 1865.  Cornh. Mag., Oct., 411. To find some one to teach clear-starching at your school.

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