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courche

courche is the obsolete spelling of curch.

Meaning of curch

Noun

curch (plural curches)

  1. (Scotland) A square piece of linen formerly worn by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.
    • The snood was exchanged for the curch, toy, or coif, when a Scottish lass passed, by marriage, into the matron state.1810, Walter Scott, “Canto III. The Gathering.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and...

Forms of courche

pluralcourches

Questions about courche

What is courche the obsolete spelling of?
Courche is the obsolete spelling of curch.

Words near courche in the dictionary

  1. courbs
  2. cource
  3. Courcelles-le-Comte
  4. Courchaine
  5. Courchaines
  6. courche
  7. courches
  8. Courcy
  9. coure
  10. coured
  11. coures

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Adapted from Wiktionary: courche (page history and authors); curch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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