And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
Source: tatoeba (6399668)
Kerchief
//ˈkɝ.t͡ʃɪf//
Synonyms for "kerchief" (16 found)
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1 entriesderived
5 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 42 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- غِفَارَة noun (piece of cloth)
- لِفَاع noun (piece of cloth)
Armenian
2 entries- գլխաշոր noun (piece of cloth)
- թաշկինակ noun (piece of cloth)
Bashkir
1 entries- яулыҡ noun (piece of cloth)
Belarusian
1 entries- ху́стка noun (piece of cloth)
Bulgarian
1 entries- забрадка noun (piece of cloth)
Catalan
1 entries- mocador noun (piece of cloth)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 頭巾 /头巾 noun (piece of cloth)
Chuvash
1 entries- тутӑр noun (piece of cloth)
Czech
1 entries- šátek noun (piece of cloth)
Dutch
2 entries- hoofddoek noun (piece of cloth)
- sluier noun (piece of cloth)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaptuko noun (piece of cloth)
Finnish
1 entries- huivi noun (piece of cloth)
French
2 entries- fichu noun (piece of cloth)
- foulard noun (piece of cloth)
Galician
2 entries- pano noun (piece of cloth)
- pano da cabeza noun (piece of cloth)
Georgian
3 entries- თავსაფარი noun (piece of cloth)
- თავშალი noun (piece of cloth)
- ხილაბანდი noun (piece of cloth)
German
1 entries- Kopftuch noun (piece of cloth)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌹 noun (piece of cloth)
Hausa
1 entries- mayani noun (piece of cloth)
Hungarian
1 entries- kendő noun (piece of cloth)
Irish
4 entries- brat cinn noun (piece of cloth)
- bréidín noun (piece of cloth)
- cafarr noun (piece of cloth)
- ciarsúr noun (piece of cloth)
Italian
2 entries- bandana noun (piece of cloth)
- fascia noun (piece of cloth)
Japanese
1 entries- 頭巾 noun (piece of cloth)
Korean
1 entries- 두건 noun (piece of cloth)
Macedonian
1 entries- ма́рама noun (piece of cloth)
Middle English
2 entries- keverchef noun (piece of cloth)
- kevercher noun (piece of cloth)
Norwegian
1 entries- tørkle noun (piece of cloth)
Ojibwe
1 entries- moshwe noun (piece of cloth)
Persian
3 entries- روسری noun (piece of cloth)
- رویمال noun (piece of cloth)
- لچک noun (piece of cloth)
Polish
1 entries- chustka noun (piece of cloth)
Portuguese
2 entries- bandana noun (piece of cloth)
- lenço noun (piece of cloth)
Romanian
4 entries- basma noun (piece of cloth)
- batic noun (piece of cloth)
- maramă noun (piece of cloth)
- năframă noun (piece of cloth)
Russian
3 entries- косы́нка noun (piece of cloth)
- плато́к noun (piece of cloth)
- плато́чек noun (piece of cloth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- marama noun (piece of cloth)
- марама noun (piece of cloth)
Spanish
2 entries- toca noun (piece of cloth)
- toquilla noun (piece of cloth)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- angisa noun (piece of cloth)
Swedish
2 entries- huvudduk noun (piece of cloth)
- sjalett noun (piece of cloth)
Tajik
2 entries- рӯймол noun (piece of cloth)
- рӯмол noun (piece of cloth)
Tatar
1 entries- яулык noun (piece of cloth)
Turkish
1 entries- başörtüsü noun (piece of cloth)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ху́стка noun (piece of cloth)
Welsh
1 entries- penllïain noun (piece of cloth)
Yiddish
2 entries- טיכל noun (piece of cloth)
- פֿאַטשיילע noun (piece of cloth)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Hugo ran from the house, crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack, and giving the hounds a kerchief of the maid’s, he swung them to the line, and so off full cry in the moonlight over the moor.
Source: tatoeba (6605902)
And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, / Had just settled down for a long winter's nap […]
Source: wiktionary
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