scarve

present singular third person scarves · participle present scarving · participle past scarved · past scarved

1. alternativetransitiveAlternative form of scarf (“to cover as or like a scarf”).

   A cowl scarved her shoulders.

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   He liked the air of discreetness that scarved the town—the atmosphere of gentility and circumspection and tread-wariliness and calf-bound bookishness in which it was steeped.

   1924 June, L. A. Morrison, “He Liked Bournesouth”, in John Middleton Murry, editor, The Adelphi, volume II, number 1, page 31

   […] Of opal clouds that scarve the sky / When pearl grey wisps of dusk float by, / Of lace that spiders have spun new / To catch a drift of tinsel dew; […]

   1928, Lexie Dean Robertson, “This Loveliness I Know”, in Red Heels, Dallas, Tex.: The Southwest Press, page 78

   Winding black clouds scarved its base, black streaks on its snow top; […]

   1968, Jack Ludwig, Above Ground, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 161

   The mist that had scarved his eyes dissolved and he saw everything at once with new and startling perception, aware of the folds and pleats of the curtains and in Laurie’s dress, the texture of which stood out as clearly as features in a rarefied landscape opening before his eyes.

   1974, Christy Brown, A Shadow on Summer, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, published 1975, →ISBN, page 94

   He’s there and there she is, curled up fetally inside the shabby old orange sleeping bag on the mattress, the brocade headrag loosely scarving her bare head against the cold.

   1993, Tabitha King, One on One, Signet Books, →ISBN, page 330

2. alternativetransitiveAlternative form of scarf (“to cover (as) with a scarf”).

   She scarved her head.

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   I scarved her shoulders, struck to gold, / I starved for her face till Time grew old / And faltered in its tide.

   1914, William Rose Benét, The Falconer of God and Other Poems, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey [Sumner] Milford, Oxford University Press, page 16

   She has scarved her head like a gypsy in a tie-dyed rag with a fringe that looks like it might once have been a doily in some old tabby’s musty parlor.

   1993, Tabitha King, One on One, Signet Books, →ISBN, page 73

   She trusted me to scarve her shoulders, her creatures snoozed below our bed.

   2015, Alan Gould, “And We Had Hands”, in Geoff Page, editor, The Best Australian Poems 2015, Black Inc., →ISBN

   All of it brought back precious memories of when her mother dressed and scarved her and tucked her all nice and tight into her warm winter gear, then kissed her on her rosy cheeks as she anxiously bounced up and down and couldn’t wait to get out and play with Tristan, throw snowballs or make forts and winged creatures in the snow and laugh all day long.

   2019, Warren Kenneth Clyde, Pangerath: Enter The Dark Wizard