When she returned the next morning, however, she wore a starched white dress, an affable aspect-and a sprig of orange blossoms behind her ear.

Drops of blood patter down the starched white dress.

Standing near the driftwood fire, I could imagine her at 6, in a perfectly starched dress, tucking into a dish whose sweetness I also remember.

P Map This is a wonderfully old-school Korean restaurant with chocolate-brown booths, waitresses in starched dresses and lots of traditional fare.

Shop girls, neat as pins in their starched dresses and aprons, bustled to greet early customers.

This is the sum, even though down there, among the packed flesh, one can find the smell of starched white dresses, of clean hair, of healthy young skin.

She stood, tight-lipped, in her starched black dress.

Perspiration soaked through her freshly starched dress as she followed Dr. Meade about, a basin in her hand.

She daydreamed of a little girl in a starched white dress and white gloves and white shoes, and with a white pony all her own.

There was a scalloped, tiered starched white dress with a white jacket, layered over silk starched trousers.