kercher

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

kercher (plural kerchers)

1. (obsolete) A bandana.
   • 1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough"

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

   Synonym: (dated) kerchief

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

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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