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

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

Thou to thy spousal universe Art Husband, she thy Wife and Church; Who in most dusk and vidual curch, Her Lord being hence, Keeps her cold sorrows by thy hearse.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean I wat she is a daintie chuckie; And cheery blinks the ingle-gleed O' Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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 Reid, George

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