kercher

See also: Kercher

English

Etymology

From Middle English kercher, kerchere, kerchure, kevercher, keverchere, kirchire, from coverchef.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

kercher (plural kerchers)

  1. (obsolete) A kerchief.
    • 1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough"
      Her hair , once black , was now confined under a kercher

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kercher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Noun

kercher

  1. Alternative form of coverchef
    • c. 1330, “Early English Text Society, Extra Series 46, 48”, in E. Kölbing, editor, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun:
      A keuerchef [vr. kercher] to him a drouȝ In þat ilche stounde, To stope mide is wonde.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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