clear-starching

The novel, the stiff old lady, the gentleman, the caps, the petticoats, the clear-starching — what was the cause of her downfall?

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

All this clear-starching and ironing, she exclaimed, were beyond her.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

At one time table-linen is washed and ironed properly; at another, the best methods of treating dish-towels are taught; at another, the washing of flannels and the doing up of prints and ginghams; at another, clear-starching, the cleansing of laces and fine materials; and so on, until the whole round of a family laundry has been scientifically taught and enforced by practice.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

It is the true spirit of comedy which introduces into this closely perfumed atmosphere the bluff country figure of Sir Positive Trap, with his exordiums on the rustic ladies, and on "the good old English art of clear-starching."

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

The gentle Quakeress who, in her youth, had modelled Wedgwood figures in paper pulp, and clapped her clear-starching to the rhythm of _Lalla Rookh_, was, in middle life, one of the staunchest supporters of the Pre-Raphaelite Brethren, and that at a time when the President of the Royal Academy had announced his intention of hanging no more of their 'outrageous productions.'

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

There was one book then in course of preparation which Mary thought worthy to have been read, even in those literary clear-starching days.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

When rice is boiled in a pot without being tied up in a bag, the water in which it is boiled is as good as Poland starch for clear-starching muslins, if boiled to a thick consistency after it is turned off from the boiled rice, and then strained.

The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner Anonymous

We read and clapped our clear-starching, read and clapped, and read again, and all the time our souls were not on this earth. '

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

It is the true spirit of comedy which introduces into this closely perfumed atmosphere the bluff country figure of Sir Positive Trap, with his exordiums on the rustic ladies, and on “the good old English art of clear-starching.”

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

Washing, ironing, clear-starching, making up gents 'fine shirts for evening wear -- everything's done under my own eye!'

The Wind in the Willows 1908