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When the patient began sleeping on unstarched sheets, her troubles were over.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the porch of a Korean house nearby were about 20 Communists, half of them North Koreans with shoulder boards and fancy uniforms, half, Chinese with unstarched, unmarked yellow-green uniforms.

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As he disembarks from the Congo Queen his unstarched predecessor is carried aboard, toes turned up, Britain-bound.

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Its adherents insist that the clothes they wear be made of natural fibers�cotton, linen, silk�and that they look natural: unstructured, unlined, unstarched, unpressed.

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Her calico gown was unstarched, though scrupulously clean: she wore a thin blue-and-white summer shawl, and her old straw bonnet was trimmed with a narrow blue ribbon pieced in two places.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various