| 单词 | blue starch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue starch blue starch n. now historical = sense B. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > preparations for washing clothes blue starch1592 blue1620 powder blue1628 bluing1652 smalt-blue1735 blue bag1818 Reckitt's blue1877 washing-blue1881 scour1888 Reckitt's bag blue1925 Reckitt's blue bag1925 soil-release1969 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 The Ballet of Blue starch and poaking stickes [for the pleats of a ruff]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 149/2 Smalt, some call it blew Starch; because much used by Landresses in their Starch to make it blew. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 17. 113 Queen Elizabeth was a mortal Enemy to the Use of blue Starch in making up Linnen. 1862 Mrs. Malcolm tr. G. Freytag Pict. German Life II. 327 The Jewish cravat, stiffened with blue starch, which the Jews wear round the neck. 2009 U. McGovern & P. Jenner Lost Lore 211 In earlier times blue was often made from a pigment derived from the indigo plant, mixed with starch and made into lumps, or from Prussian blue. The resultant mixture was often known as ‘stone blue’, ‘fig blue’ or ‘blue starch’. blue starch Frequently with modifying word, as blue starch, modified starch, rice starch, etc.extracted from starchn.< as lemmas |
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