"Major, really," the nurse in the crisp whites and the starched cap and the lieutenant's bar said.

The cop in nurse's uniform turned as white as the starched cap.

The girl clearing tables wore a lacy little apron and a dainty starched cap.

She looked no older than fourteen or fifteen, a frightened schoolgirl with her uniform and starched cap that couldn't quite contain her abundant golden hair.

It fitted very well and she loved the starched caps with their brief muslin veils just covering the nape of her neck.

Something had happened to dull her eyes, and put a streak of premature gray in the hair that showed at the edge of her starched cap.

She was dressed severely in a dark blue uniform with an old-fashioned starched cap on her head and bows under her determined chin.

The nurse grinned, pushed the starched cap and the stringy blond wig askew on a bullet head.

She was short and fat, wore her hair straight and short-cropped, like a medieval knight, also wore the uniform and starched cap of a nurse.

They also wore a black starched cap with black veil flowing down the back, with only their face showing.