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English
Etymology
From cornstarch + -ed.
Adjective
cornstarched (comparative more cornstarched, superlative most cornstarched)
- With cornstarch.
- Synonym: cornstarchy
1908 January 24, Reader , “Tried Recipes”, in Henry Wallace, editor, Wallaces’ Farmer: A Weekly Journal for Western Farmers, volume XXXIII, number 4, Des Moines, Ia., →ISSN, page 108 (16), column 4:Marshmallows: Soak two tablespoons gelatine in six tablespoons cold water. Boil until stringy two cups granulated sugar and six tablespoons hot water, add gelatine, and beat about twenty minutes. Pour out on a cornstarched platter.
1915, “Before the Footlights”, in Narva, Parkville, Mo.: Park College, column 1:But strange to say it is not the really creditable acting that is longest remembered by the players or audience, but the unexpected incidents which come up without warning. The false beard which falls off just as the player is trying to be most impressive; the pseudo forest which collapses at a sudden gust of wind or the cornstarched locks which lose half their whiteness when Malvolio shakes his head in a fit of dramatic rage.
2017, Catherine Owen, “The Deceased bgs”, in Dear Ghost, Hamilton, Ont.: Buckrider Books, →ISBN, page 37:As one corpse dangles from a noose, last scene, cornstarched cocaine snowing down, near rolling, his phone rings, his wife has just given birth, and the crew gathers around the killed man, applauding again and again, the juxtaposition, the miracle.