kerchieved

From the hoeing and the mowing and the lavender rows gray; From laying down the runners down to Warsash way; Kerchieved as the buttercup, Ringèd as the moon, Beaded like the briony, scarlet-threaded soon; Driving in the tilted cart from smoky tent and tan, Rumbling down the roadway in the red caravan!

1910 November 26, Alice E[lizabeth] Gillington, “The Gypsies Pass”, in Country Life, volume XXVIII, number 725, page 740, column 2

We ran on through mile after mile of olive trees, where red-kerchieved maidens of Grecian profile were gathering the fruit into baskets.

1929, Leslie Richardson, Things Seen in Provence: A Description of the Land of Troubadours & Romance from Valence in the North to the Sunbathed Lands on the Shores of the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 61

i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect.

1967, The Illustrated London News, page 28, column 1

Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.

1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170

you're here, you're there, you're lost on a flight to Stockholm the Belgian francs are talking to me again two hundred Belgian francs strut past me to chuckle the languages we use five hundred and fifty blue-kerchieved heads nod at the cleaner's, tell me they can't understand my French.

1971–1972 fall–winter, Judith Johnson Sherwin, “Aspen Leaves”, in The Little Magazine, volume five, numbers 3 & 4, stanza 2, page 66