| 释义 | curch Sc.|kɜːtʃ|
Forms: 5 kerche, (courchie), 5–6 courch(e, curche, (6 cowrtche), 7 kerch, (8 kirch, 9 kertch), 7– curch.
[An erroneous singular of curches, repr. OF. couvrechés, -chiés, pl. of couvrechef: see coverchief, kerchief.]
A covering for the head; a kerchief; ‘a square piece of linen used in former times by women, instead of a cap or mutch’ (Jamieson).
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 285 She hyr wolde arayin ful porely..and..Up on hyr hede leyn a foule kerche. 1457Sc. Acts Jas. II, c. 71 On theer heads short curches..Courchies of theer awin making. c1470Henry Wallace i. 241 A soudly courche our hed and nek leit fall. 15..Peebles to Play, Ane said, ‘My curches are not press'd’. 1530Inv. in Nugæ Derelictæ (1880) x. 9 Item xxi neipkins and brest cowrtchis. Itm thre nek cowrtchis. 1698M. Martin Voy. Kilda (1749) 50 The Kerch, or Head-dress worn by herself. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. v. note, The snood was exchanged for the curch, toy, or coif, when a Scottish lass passed, by marriage, into the matron state. 1854Mrs. Oliphant Magd. Hepburn I. 150 An old woman with long grey locks escaping from her curch. 1900A. Carmichael Carmina Gadelica I. p. xxv, On the morning after the marriage the mother of the bride..placed the ‘breid tri chearnach’, three-cornered kertch, on the head of the bride before she rose from her bed. Ibid., The feast of the ‘bord breid’, kertch table, was almost as great as the feast of the marriage table. |
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