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Date: 1400-1500
Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old English stercan 'to make stiff'

starch

2 verb
     
Related topics: Clothes and Fashion, Cleaning
starch2 [transitive usually passive]
DCDHC to make cloth stiff, using starch:
a starched tablecloth
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