headkerchiefed

English

Alternative forms

• head-kerchiefed

Etymology

From headkerchief +‎ -ed.

Adjective

headkerchiefed (not comparable)

1. Wearing a headkerchief.
   • 1892, Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review, volume IX, New York, N.Y.: The Current Literature Publishing Co., […], page 585:

     All those who have visited Paris will have noticed, sitting on a stool at the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l’Opéra, which is just opposite the Café de la Paix, a weather-beaten, headkerchiefed old lady offering key[-]rings for sale, and displaying, as if to whip up the sluggish altruism of passers-by, two wooden legs.

   • 1892 August 25, a Tourist, “The Irish of Bloody Foreland”, in The Morning Post, number 37,504, London, page 2:

     The little red-headkerchiefed girl who attends upon them has two responsible duties.

   • 1901, Louise Seymour Houghton, The Silent Highway: A Story of the McAll Mission, New York, N.Y.: The Evangelist Publishing Company, […], page 62:

     “Again,” said Bellah, and still “again,” until the notes rang out lustily, and half a dozen head[-]kerchiefed old crones who had strayed in nodded with delight.

   • 1971 February 12, Loree Oursler, “Lead Belly”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 77, section D, page four:

     A large headkerchiefed woman came to the door to investigate the commotion.

   • 1989 January 28, Heather Hill, “People’s express has class but no party: Passengers forswear bourgeois comfort to bask in shady glamor”, in The Gazette, page I-3:

     Slyudianka, for example, the first town on the Trans-Baikal stretch of the line, is pure storybook Russia, with its distinctive green-and-blue wooden houses, the delicious smell of birch smoke in crisp air and headkerchiefed babas selling souvenirs and bits of food on the platform.