STARCHED

Traducere în limba română

starched adjectiv

1. scrobit.

2. (fig.) formal; rigid.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

They starched two hundred white shirts, with a single gathering movement seizing a shirt so that the wristbands, neckband, yoke, and bosom protruded beyond the circling right hand.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

With a handkerchief in one hand he mopped his face, while in the other hand he carried a new hat and a wilted starched collar which he had removed from his neck.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

As he was in the habit of complaining of pains in his head—he had naturally a short throat, and I do seriously believe he over-starched himself—I was at first alarmed by the idea that he was not quite right in that direction; but he soon relieved my uneasiness.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The young Mrs. Eleanors and Mrs. Bridgets—starched up into seeming piety, but with heads full of something very different—especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at—and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even to what they are now.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Quite naturally he found himself at a mangle, feeding starched cuffs.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He looked up from his task and saw Joe standing before him juggling flat- irons, starched shirts, and manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He recovered the axe in the midst of the Milky Way of checks, starched shirts, and manuscripts, and prepared, when he came down, to kill Joe.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He must make a personal reform in all things, even to tooth-washing and neck-gear, though a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Also, his love of freedom chafed against the restriction in much the same way his neck chafed against the starched fetter of a collar.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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