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kerchief

/kur-chif, -cheef/US // ˈkɜr tʃɪf, -tʃif //UK // (ˈkɜːtʃɪf) //

头巾,丝巾,丝带,纚纚

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
    • : a handkerchief.

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Examples

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

  • Wilding alone—the butt of their expostulations—stood quietly smiling, and wiped his face at last with a kerchief of finest lawn.

  • But she went to a settle hard by and swept aside a kerchief which lay on it as if by chance, and under it were two war arrows.

  • The girl turned back to the fire and put out a little foot for us to see, muffled now in the red folds of the kerchief.

  • From beneath a sort of kerchief which she wore on her head escaped in profusion light golden hair.

  • A smock covered her into shapelessness, and her spectacular hair was bound up in a kerchief, but she still looked good.