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
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It was exchanged for the curch, toy, or coif, when she passed, by marriage, into the matron state.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
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
Some of these good women generally 'busk the bride's first curch.'
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
It is then covered with the curch; a square piece of linen doubled diagonally, and passed round the head close to the forehead.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
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 Frank Sidgwick
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