Definitions for curches

curches curch

Spelling: [kurch]
IPA: /kɜrtʃ/

Curches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in curches (ccehrsu).

Definitions for curches

noun

  1. a simple, close-fitting cap worn by women in colonial America.
  2. a kerchief worn by Scottish women.

Origin of curches

1400-50; late Middle English kerche, c(o)urche, back formation from courche(i)s (plural) Middle French couvrech(i)es, plural of couvrechef kerchief; the final e o

Examples for curches

Some of these good women generally 'busk the bride's first curch.'

It is then covered with the curch; a square piece of linen doubled diagonally, and passed round the head close to the forehead.

curch, which is etymologically the same word, and means a covering for the head.

A ribbon worn by Scotch lassies and upon marriage replaced by the matron's "curch" or cap.

Word Value for curches
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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