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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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 Francis Thompson
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
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
Oh! is my basnet a widow's curch, Or my lance a wand o' the willow-tree, Or my arm a lady's lily hand, That an English lord should lightly me?
From Queen Hildegarde by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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