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 Translation for 'starching' from English to French
NOUN   starching | -
VERB   to starch | starched | starched
starching | starches
textile
amidonnage {m} [du linge]
starching
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Translation for 'starching' from English to French

starching
amidonnage {m} [du linge]textile
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Usage Examples English
  • During the nineteenth century and well into the first part of the twentieth century, the village experienced a steady prosperity based on the spinning and starching industries.
  • At the time, convents and monasteries used large quantities of egg-whites for starching clothes, such as friars and nuns' religious habits.
  • Tapioca starch, used commonly for starching shirts and garments before ironing, may be sold in bottles of natural gum starch to be dissolved in water or in spray cans.
  • Laundry was a common service performed by convents and monasteries, and their use of egg whites for "starching" clothes created a large surplus of yolks.
  • Alice Montague was paid for hemming and edging Elizabeth's partlets, and starching the queen's sleeves and ruffs.

  • For washing, starching, ironing and reassembling a poffer, a poffer maker received 9 cents.
  • Washing with a mild detergent, followed by starching and then hanging them to dry in a shaded area will ensure the longevity of these cotton saris.
  • Separate ruffs exist alongside attached ruffled collars from the mid-16th century, usually to allow starching and other fine finishing, [...] or to make collar-laundering easier.
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