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overstarched

  • a word derived from starch.
    starch
    noun
    a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O5 ) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.

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But I told him to picture funnyman Smith delivering these zingers, and Corrigan would be crying on his overstarched shirt.

From Time Magazine Archive

The traveller, bird of passage he, Stiff, overstarched and insolent, Awakens secret merriment By his embarrassed dignity— Mute glances interchanged aside Meet punishment for him provide.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding

That rustling, the creaking of his collar on his overstarched shirt band, and the buzzing of the mud daubers round the windows were the only sounds.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips