curch
Americannoun
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a simple, close-fitting cap worn by women in colonial America.
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a kerchief worn by Scottish women.
noun
Etymology
Origin of curch
1400–50; late Middle English kerche, c ( o ) urche, back formation from courche ( i ) s (plural) < Middle French couvrech ( i ) es, plural of couvrechef kerchief; the final e of the singular form, originally long, was later lost
Example Sentences
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One cried that her curch was not starched enough, another that a hood was best, another bewailed herself as "so evil sunburnt" that she was not fit to be seen.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
Ah! thou old witch, and who has told thee that I wish to go into service, to get a curch on my head?
From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold
Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean, I wat she is a dainty chucky; And cheerlie blinks the ingle-gleed Of Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
A ribbon worn by Scotch lassies and upon marriage replaced by the matron's "curch" or cap. plaid.
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
The officials sat below in the nave of the curch, so that I did not see them.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
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