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English
Etymology
From Middle English kercher, kerchere, kerchure, kevercher, keverchere, kirchire, from coverchef.
Pronunciation
Noun
kercher (plural kerchers)
- (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⸝ , : [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
Middle English
Noun
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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)