kerchieved

English

Adjective

kerchieved (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of kerchiefed.
   • 1910 November 26, Alice E[lizabeth] Gillington, “The Gypsies Pass”, in Country Life, volume XXVIII, number 725, page 740, column 2:

     From the hoeing and the mowing and the lavender rows gray; / From laying down the runners down to Warsash way; / Kerchieved as the buttercup, / Ringèd as the moon, / Beaded like the briony, scarlet-threaded soon; / Driving in the tilted cart from smoky tent and tan, / Rumbling down the roadway in the red caravan!

   • 1927 August 3, Edith M. Almedingen, “[Woman’s Ways.] The Russian Peasant at Work.”, in Nottingham Evening Post, number 15,321, page 3, column 3:

     The white-kerchieved head is bent closely over the masterpiece-to-be.

   • 1929, Leslie Richardson, Things Seen in Provence: A Description of the Land of Troubadours & Romance from Valence in the North to the Sunbathed Lands on the Shores of the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 61:

     We ran on through mile after mile of olive trees, where red-kerchieved maidens of Grecian profile were gathering the fruit into baskets.

   • 1967, The Illustrated London News, page 28, column 1:

     i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect.

   • 1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170:

     Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.

   • 1971–1972 fall–winter, Judith Johnson Sherwin, “Aspen Leaves”, in The Little Magazine, volume five, numbers 3 & 4, stanza 2, page 66:

     you're here, you're there, you're lost on a flight to Stockholm / the Belgian francs are talking to me again / two hundred Belgian francs strut past me to chuckle / the languages we use / five hundred and fifty blue-kerchieved heads nod / at the cleaner's, tell me they can't understand my French.

   • 1973, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago, Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, section 47, page 58:

     Kerchieved women flash by, crazy little mutts yelp, and the red roses of samovars burn in taverns and houses.

   • 1978 January 22, Wanda Urbanski, “Poland: The memories linger”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 213, number 22, page 63, column 3:

     We sat there over an hour, watching strollers and some kerchieved peasant ladies selling carnations, roses, and rubber-banded sobriquets from their plastic-bucket shops.

   • 1980, John A. Young, Jan M. Newton, “Taming the “Timber Beast””, in Capitalism and Human Obsolescence: Corporate Control versus Individual Survival in Rural America (LandMark Studies), Montclair, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun; New York, N.Y.: Universe Books, →ISBN, section “A Woodlot for the United States”, page 22:

     It is true that a motorist might still be forced to stop on a major highway as kerchieved cowboys drive a large herd of cattle across and down the road.

   • 1988, Ulrich Eggers, “Haydn with Bean Salad!”, in Community for Life, Scottdale, Pa., Kitchener, Ont.: Herald Press, →ISBN, page 150:

     On the one hand there is the romantic view of the brightly colored circle of kerchieved community people, who watch the exquisite sunset as they sit on this wooded hill.

   • 2007, Jack Falla, Saved, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 130:

     It was as if I were a kid again and serving morning Mass in front of pews filled with murmuring kerchieved women, their rosary beads clacking against the backs of oaken pews.