neckerchief
, neck + coverchief.
Searchable Lemmata: nek-ker-chef (ME), neke-kicher, neck coverchief (MdE), neckerchief (MdE), neckercher (MdE).
Alternate Forms: necke couercheues, neckercheuys, nekchers, neke-kycher, nekkerchys, nekkyrchefe.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Accessory;
coverchief worn about the neck.(ante 1382 still in current use)
1. [3.18] ... In that dai the Lord shal don awei the ournement of shon, and boces [L lunulas], and be3es, and brooches ... and mytris and combys [WB(2): coombis; L discriminalia] and ribanes and reuerses at the hemmis ... [3.23] ... Pynnes and sheweres and necke couercheues [vr. neckercheuys], and filetes [WB(2): and smal lynun clothis aboute the schuldris, and kercheues; L et sindones et vittas].
Biblical/Hagiographic.
[MED WBible(1) ((Dc 369(1)) Is.3.18-23) 1382]
2. I pray yow fore-gete not to send me a kersche of cremelle fore nekkerchys fore yowr syster Anne.
Other.
[MED Paston (1.339) 1469]
Sex: Male, Female Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Neck.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, compound of neck + coverchief (q.v.) or its reduced forms kerchief, kercher (qqv.)
WF: Compound
Etym Cog: neckerchief (ME).
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