Definitions for kerchief

kerchief ker·chief

Spelling: [kur-chif, -cheef]
IPA: /ˈkɜr tʃɪf, -tʃif/

Kerchief is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in kerchief (ceefhikr).

Definitions for kerchief

noun

  1. a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
  2. a handkerchief.

Origin of kerchief

1250-1300; Middle English kerchef, syncopated variant of keverchef Old French cuevrechef literally, (it) covers (the) head. See cover, chief

Examples for kerchief

It was Mukhorty, and not only Mukhorty, but the sledge with the shafts and the kerchief.

She tied a kerchief about her eyes; then, feeling for the block, she said, What shall I do; where is it?

She had removed her damaged straw headgear, but still wore her kerchief.

She removed the kerchief from her head, and began to fan herself.

Tucked in the soft folds of her kerchief was one of the roses that afternoon.

A large woman with her head tied in a kerchief, wearing a purple wrapper and gold house slippers, passes by on the sidewalk.

Here is a kerchief, press it on the wound to prevent the blood flowing.

When he held out the kerchief to her, their hands, by chance, touched for a moment.

Take your kerchief, Kenneth, and pinion his wrists behind him.

"That goes very well with the initial on the kerchief," said Parson Jones.

Word Value for kerchief
Scrable

20

Words with friends

20

Similar words for kerchief
Word of the day