KERCHIEF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kerchief mean? 

• KERCHIEF (noun)
  The noun KERCHIEF has 1 sense:

1. a square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck

  Familiarity information: KERCHIEF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KERCHIEF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A square scarf that is folded into a triangle and worn over the head or about the neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kerchief" is a kind of...):

scarf (a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kerchief"):

headscarf (a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin)

neckerchief (a kerchief worn around the neck)

 Context examples 

Whether my aunt supposed, for the moment, that he kept her property in his neck-kerchief, I am sure I don't know; but she certainly pulled at it as if she thought so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his warhorse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In my memories of those days she is clad always in some purple shimmering stuff, with a white kerchief round her long white neck, and I see her fingers turning and darting as she works at her knitting.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not, and do not, suppose that this neck-kerchief was all the linen he wore, but it was all he showed or gave any hint of.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sir Nigel, Sir Nigel! you owe me a return for this, and he touched his right arm, which was girt round just under the shoulder with a silken kerchief.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dressed in a suit of black clothes which were rather rusty and dry too, and rather short in the sleeves and legs; and he had a white neck-kerchief on, that was not over-clean.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He, however, blinking with puckered eyes, reached up his kerchief, and flicked the beast twice across the snout with it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His enemy, muttering to himself, after wringing his wounded hand for sometime, slowly drew off his neck-kerchief and bound it up; then held it in his other hand, and sat upon his table with his sullen face looking down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Aylward rode for half a mile with his chin upon his shoulder, looking back at a white kerchief which fluttered out of the gable window of a high house which peeped over the corner of the battlements.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never pausing for an answer to anything he said, Traddles, who had clapped me into an easy-chair by the fire, all this time impetuously stirred the fire with one hand, and pulled at my neck-kerchief with the other, under some wild delusion that it was a great-coat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)