curch

/kurch/US // kɜrtʃ //UK // (kɜːtʃ) //

胆怯,胆小鬼,胆汁,胆量

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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

A ribbon worn by Scotch lassies and upon marriage replaced by the matron's "curch" or cap.
Curch, which is etymologically the same word, and means a covering for the head.
It is then covered with the curch; a square piece of linen doubled diagonally, and passed round the head close to the forehead.
Some of these good women generally 'busk the bride's first curch.'