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===Laundry starch=== The roots were a traditional source of [[Starch#Clothing starch|starch for stiffening clothes]]. In 1440, the nuns of [[Syon Abbey]] in England used the roots of the cuckoo-pint flower to make starch for church linens; only starch "made of herbes" could be used for [[Mass (liturgy)|communion]] linen.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Starching Fabric|url=http://www.oldandinteresting.com/laundry-starch-history.aspx|website=Old and Interesting|date=21 July 2010}}</ref>
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