Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dress or cover, as the head, with a kercher.
- noun A kerchief.
- noun An animal's caul.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kerchief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
kerchief .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Knox family and kercher family seated on opposite sides of courtroom, media filming both. #amandaknox8.37pm: Amanda Knox has just arrived in court, flanked as usual by two police officers.
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That done, he fleaeth it, and taweth the skinne betwixte his handes, vntill it become very souple and soft and kiepeth it for a hande kercher.
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And I spent them two silver dollars on a white gauze neck-kercher and a piece of red satin ribbin for ye, for I'm set on that chintz.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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Let me but approach my gloves or my hand kercher to them, their smell will sticke upon them a whole day.
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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This enormity the Yankee still persists in, and as there is always a reason for such deviations from the sound as represented by the spelling, may we not suspect two sources of derivation, and find an ancestor for _kercher_ in _couverture_ rather than in _couvrechef_?
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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_ A plaine kercher sir _Iohn_, would fit me better.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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And a kercher on that head, where late the diademe stoode,
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto William Shakespeare 1590
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That done, he fleaeth it, and taweth the skinne betwixte his handes, vntill it become very souple and soft and kiepeth it for a hande kercher.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The 22-year-old was sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison last week, along with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, for the murder of her British roommate Meredith kercher in Perugia, Italy in November 2007.
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The 22-year-old was sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison last week, along with her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, for the murder of her British roommate Meredith kercher in Perugia, Italy in November 2007.
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