kercher
See also: Kercher
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English kercher, kerchere, kerchure, kevercher, keverchere, kirchire, from coverchef.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kercher (plural kerchers)
- (obsolete) A bandana.
- 1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough"
- Her hair , once black , was now confined under a kercher
- Synonym: (dated) kerchief
- 1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough"
References edit
- “kercher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
kercher
- Alternative form of coverchef
- c. 1330, “Early English Text Society, Extra Series 46, 48”, in E. Kölbing, editor, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun:
- A keuerchef [vr. kercher] to him a drouȝ In þat ilche stounde, To stope mide is wonde.
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