kercher

See also: Kercher

English

Etymology

From Middle English kercher, kerchere, kerchure, kevercher, keverchere, kirchire, from coverchef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

kercher (plural kerchers)

1. (obsolete) A bandana.

   Synonym: (dated) kerchief

   • 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccccxi, recto, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:

     He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […]

   • 1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough"

     Her hair , once black , was now confined under a kercher

References

• “kercher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

kercher

1. 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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