kercher

plural kerchers

1. obsoleteA bandana.

   1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough" Her hair , once black , was now confined under a kercher

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   He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […]

   1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccccxi, recto, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC

   I bought thee kerchers to thy head, that were wrought fine and gallantly: I kept thee both at boord and bed, Which cost my purse wel fauouredly.

   1878 [1584], Clement Robinson, “A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeues” (stanza 3), in Edward Arber, editor, A Handful of Pleasant Delights

   Synonyms: kerchief

plural Kerchers

1. A surname.