单词 | starching |
释义 | starchingn. 1. The action of starch v. (in various senses); (occasionally) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > starching starching1390 clear-starching1728 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > other processes starching1390 drawing1579 lapper1732 animalization1783 gassing1822 stuff-presser1831 rot-steep1835 plating1843 oversizing1882 Schreinering1905 Schreinerizing1906 potting1920 tie-dye1926 ikat1931 pre-boarding1940 permanent press1944 stentering1946 1390–1 Norwich Sacrist's Roll in Notes & Queries (1915) 16 Jan. 48/1 Pro Coole pro starchyng .viij.d. 1443–4 in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Compota Domestica (1836) 23 Liberantur lotrici de camera pro sterchyng velaminum domine et generosarum suarum hoc anno..j quarterium. 1529–30 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 350 Paid for wasshyng & Starchyng of þe pix clothe ij d. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F.2v When they come to starching, and setting of their ruffes, than must this instrument be heated in the fire, the better to stiffen the ruffe. 1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια sig. C4v We that keepe houses..must ha' roome for..starching. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. i. 23 A Waiting-woman..with mighty Golls, rough-grain'd, and red with Starching. 1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks iv. 42 One must Sneak to the Government, for a Pension of twenty Shillings a Week..and hammer out the rest with Washing, and Starching. 1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching v. 97 The last operation is that of starching and bluing. 1828 Friend 15 Mar. 171/1 The wearisome turnings, and cuttings, and bleachings, and starchings, and clappings, put the whole family in commotion. 1893 Laundry Managem. ix. 65 Starching may be done either by hand or by machine. 1914 Publishers' Weekly 21 Mar. 1059/1 A faultless white linen suit which would need daily washings..as well as blueings, starchings and pressings. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 161/2 If colours are fast they can be washed in hot water... Light starching will improve them. 2012 C. H. Crim Sewn Hats i. 8 Test spray a swatch of fabric to make sure it is suitable for starching. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > vegetable extracts or preparations > [noun] > starch starch1440 starch flour1540 stiffing1597 starching1617 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 243 The excrements being of a yellowish coulor in young men (like their starching now adaies). 1633 C. Farewell East-India Colation 19 Their Generall and most neate, or Angelicall habite, which sparkles (of their kind of starching) like siluer spangles. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Starching,..the starch put in cloaths to make them stiff. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ a1500 Eng. Glosses MS BL Add. 37075 (1984) 31 Calamistrum, starchyng yrun. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F1v They haue their starching houses..the better to trimme and dresse their ruffes. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 348/1 The Weavers Starching Brush, is a long square Bristle Brush; with it he Starcheth the Yarn. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1167 Starching and Steam-drying Apparatus. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1168 C, is the cloth-beam, from which the starching roller draws forward the goods. 1855 Ladies' Compan. May 238/2 The cloth is..passed, in a length of ten pieces, through the starching mangle. 1912 W. H. Tolman & A. W. Guthrie Hygiene for Worker xiv. 165 Starchers sometimes suffer from nausea as a result of the starching process. 1956 Chicago Defender 24 Mar. 7/1 You can keep your Easter finery looking fresh and crisp through six to 12 washings with a new starching method. 2010 D. S. O'Garro Maamie & Parpi Daley of Montserrat x. 56 We poured boiling water on the cassava starch, and diluted it with cold water in the starching pan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1390 |
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