"kerchieved" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "kerchiefed"
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          "ref": "1910 November 26, Alice E[lizabeth] Gillington, “The Gypsies Pass”, in Country Life, volume XXVIII, number 725, page 740, column 2:",
          "text": "From the hoeing and the mowing and the lavender rows gray;\n From laying down the runners down to Warsash way;\n Kerchieved as the buttercup,\n Ringèd as the moon,\n Beaded like the briony, scarlet-threaded soon;\n Driving in the tilted cart from smoky tent and tan,\n Rumbling down the roadway in the red caravan!",
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        {
          "ref": "1927 August 3, Edith M. Almedingen, “[Woman’s Ways.] The Russian Peasant at Work.”, in Nottingham Evening Post, number 15,321, page 3, column 3:",
          "text": "The white-kerchieved head is bent closely over the masterpiece-to-be.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Leslie Richardson, Things Seen in Provence: A Description of the Land of Troubadours & Romance from Valence in the North to the Sunbathed Lands on the Shores of the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton\n& Company, page 61:",
          "text": "We ran on through mile after mile of olive trees, where red-kerchieved maidens of Grecian profile were gathering the fruit into baskets.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Illustrated London News, page 28, column 1:",
          "text": "i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170:",
          "text": "Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.",
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        {
          "ref": "1971–1972 fall–winter, Judith Johnson Sherwin, “Aspen Leaves”, in The Little Magazine, volume five, numbers 3 & 4, stanza 2, page 66:",
          "text": "you're here, you're there, you're lost on a flight to Stockholm\n the Belgian francs are talking to me again\n two hundred Belgian francs strut past me to chuckle\n the languages we use\n five hundred and fifty blue-kerchieved heads nod\n at the cleaner's, tell me they can't understand my French.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago, Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, section 47, page 58:",
          "text": "Kerchieved women flash by, crazy little mutts yelp, and the red roses of samovars burn in taverns and houses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978 January 22, Wanda Urbanski, “Poland: The memories linger”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 213, number 22, page 63, column 3:",
          "text": "We sat there over an hour, watching strollers and some kerchieved peasant ladies selling carnations, roses, and rubber-banded sobriquets from their plastic-bucket shops.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, John A. Young, Jan M. Newton, “Taming the “Timber Beast””, in Capitalism and Human Obsolescence: Corporate Control versus Individual Survival in Rural America (LandMark Studies), Montclair, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun; New York, N.Y.: Universe Books, →ISBN, section “A Woodlot for the United States”, page 22:",
          "text": "It is true that a motorist might still be forced to stop on a major highway as kerchieved cowboys drive a large herd of cattle across and down the road.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Ulrich Eggers, “Haydn with Bean Salad!”, in Community for Life, Scottdale, Pa., Kitchener, Ont.: Herald Press, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "On the one hand there is the romantic view of the brightly colored circle of kerchieved community people, who watch the exquisite sunset as they sit on this wooded hill.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jack Falla, Saved, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "It was as if I were a kid again and serving morning Mass in front of pews filled with murmuring kerchieved women, their rosary beads clacking against the backs of oaken pews.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of kerchiefed."
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          "kerchiefed",
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  "word": "kerchieved"
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          "word": "kerchiefed"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1910 November 26, Alice E[lizabeth] Gillington, “The Gypsies Pass”, in Country Life, volume XXVIII, number 725, page 740, column 2:",
          "text": "From the hoeing and the mowing and the lavender rows gray;\n From laying down the runners down to Warsash way;\n Kerchieved as the buttercup,\n Ringèd as the moon,\n Beaded like the briony, scarlet-threaded soon;\n Driving in the tilted cart from smoky tent and tan,\n Rumbling down the roadway in the red caravan!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927 August 3, Edith M. Almedingen, “[Woman’s Ways.] The Russian Peasant at Work.”, in Nottingham Evening Post, number 15,321, page 3, column 3:",
          "text": "The white-kerchieved head is bent closely over the masterpiece-to-be.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Leslie Richardson, Things Seen in Provence: A Description of the Land of Troubadours & Romance from Valence in the North to the Sunbathed Lands on the Shores of the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton\n& Company, page 61:",
          "text": "We ran on through mile after mile of olive trees, where red-kerchieved maidens of Grecian profile were gathering the fruit into baskets.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, The Illustrated London News, page 28, column 1:",
          "text": "i remember some years ago, in a New York paper, an extraordinary full-page picture of the funeral in Brooklyn of a murdered Hasidic Jewish child: a scene which might have come straight from Old Russia, with kerchieved women wailing in the street and bearded men in the long frock-coats and wide-brimmed black hats of the sect.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Richard Llewellyn, White Horse to Banbury Cross, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 170:",
          "text": "Getting out of the car, I saw the white-kerchieved butterfly-knotted heads stretching all the way down, hundreds, solid, silent, no move.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971–1972 fall–winter, Judith Johnson Sherwin, “Aspen Leaves”, in The Little Magazine, volume five, numbers 3 & 4, stanza 2, page 66:",
          "text": "you're here, you're there, you're lost on a flight to Stockholm\n the Belgian francs are talking to me again\n two hundred Belgian francs strut past me to chuckle\n the languages we use\n five hundred and fifty blue-kerchieved heads nod\n at the cleaner's, tell me they can't understand my French.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago, Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, section 47, page 58:",
          "text": "Kerchieved women flash by, crazy little mutts yelp, and the red roses of samovars burn in taverns and houses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978 January 22, Wanda Urbanski, “Poland: The memories linger”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 213, number 22, page 63, column 3:",
          "text": "We sat there over an hour, watching strollers and some kerchieved peasant ladies selling carnations, roses, and rubber-banded sobriquets from their plastic-bucket shops.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, John A. Young, Jan M. Newton, “Taming the “Timber Beast””, in Capitalism and Human Obsolescence: Corporate Control versus Individual Survival in Rural America (LandMark Studies), Montclair, N.J.: Allanheld, Osmun; New York, N.Y.: Universe Books, →ISBN, section “A Woodlot for the United States”, page 22:",
          "text": "It is true that a motorist might still be forced to stop on a major highway as kerchieved cowboys drive a large herd of cattle across and down the road.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Ulrich Eggers, “Haydn with Bean Salad!”, in Community for Life, Scottdale, Pa., Kitchener, Ont.: Herald Press, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "On the one hand there is the romantic view of the brightly colored circle of kerchieved community people, who watch the exquisite sunset as they sit on this wooded hill.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jack Falla, Saved, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "It was as if I were a kid again and serving morning Mass in front of pews filled with murmuring kerchieved women, their rosary beads clacking against the backs of oaken pews.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of kerchiefed."
      ],
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