curch

American  

[kurch] / kɜrtʃ /

noun

1. a simple, close-fitting cap worn by women in colonial America.

2. a kerchief worn by Scottish women.

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curch British  

/ kɜːtʃ /

noun

1. Also called: curchef.  a woman's plain cap or kerchief

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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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curch

Wi’ curch on head, and cloak ower face, He mounted the judge on a palfrey fyne; He rode away, a right round pace, And Christie’s Will held the bridle reyne.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

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 Meinhold, Wilhelm

Some of these good women generally 'busk the bride's first curch.'

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

O is my basnet a widow’s curch, Or my lance a wand of the willow-tree, Or my arm a ladye’s lilye hand, That an English lord should lightly me?

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

The officials sat below in the nave of the curch, so that I did not see them.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther