kerchief
IPA: kˈɝtʃʌf
noun
- (dated) A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
verb
- (dated, transitive) To cover with a kerchief.
Examples of "kerchief" in Sentences
- Married women generally wear wigs without kerchiefs.
- It hits the runner with the kerchief for the first time.
- The scarf, formerly known as the kerchief, was also worn.
- He wears boots, gloves, a kerchief, and a ten gallon hat.
- As with the kerchief, the woman may resist this step adamantly.
- A related weapon is the silk kerchief, called chindai or linso.
- Finally, Danilo throws down the kerchief and storms off in a rage.
- Good luck with everything this week – and the kerchief is adorable
- Gothic influence is seen in tying shawls and kerchiefs on the head.
- A member of the royal family would present a kerchief to each scout.
- Scarves and kerchiefs are used to protect styled hair or keep it tidy.
- 82This shaking the kerchief is a signal to disperse and the action suggests its meaning.
- [FN#82] This shaking the kerchief is a signal to disperse and the action suggests its meaning.
- To prevent such a calamity, the kerchief is worn hooded over the eyes, so as to exclude unholy sights.
- I heard your plan, and I did follow you in the poncho and kerchief, meaning to hold up the stage first, and leave it to Crosby and Curtis to prove you did it.
- Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck.
- Though she was in kerchief and mantle, and appeared to more than usual advantage in that négligé, the prince affected not to look at her, but talked continually about his business to her husband, who had always had the management of it.
- She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Frank asked Nur al-Din anent the maker of the kerchief, he answered, saying, “In very sooth this kerchief is the handiwork of my mother, who made it for me with her own hand.”
- 491 But one of the merchants said to him, Know thou, O my son, that the value of this kerchief is an hundred dinars at most and that to an eager purchaser, and if this Frank pay thee down a thousand for it, thy profit will be nine hundred dinars, and what gain canst thou desire greater than this gain?
- A picture of Christ in the mourning widow's chamber; a "mater dolorosa," in the distracted mother's home; a "kerchief" of the Holy Virgin, spotlessly white, like the glorious spirit, above the bed of olden times, are surely elevating, and honorable presences, the recollections which lead us to them are holy and imperishable, as is the devotion which bows the knee before them.