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

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

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

Ah! thou old witch, and who has told thee that I wish to go into service to get a curch on my head?

From Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

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