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keercheef

keercheef is the obsolete form of kerchief.

Meaning of kerchief

Noun

kerchief (plural kerchiefs or kerchieves)

  1. (dated) A piece of cloth used to cover the head; a bandana.
    • And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, / Had just settled down for a long winter's nap […]1823, Clement Clark Moore, The Night Before Christmas

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Forms of keercheef

pluralkeercheefs

Questions about keercheef

What is keercheef the obsolete form of?
Keercheef is the obsolete form of kerchief.

Words near keercheef in the dictionary

  1. keepy-uppy
  2. Keera
  3. Keeran
  4. Keerans
  5. Keeravani
  6. keercheef
  7. keercheefs
  8. keerful
  9. keerfully
  10. keerogue
  11. keerogues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keercheef (page history and authors); kerchief (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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