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kerchieves

kerchieves is the plural 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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Phrases with kerchieves

Questions about kerchieves

What is kerchieves the plural of?
Kerchieves is the plural of kerchief.

Words near kerchieves in the dictionary

  1. kerchiefed
  2. kerchiefing
  3. kerchieflike
  4. kerchiefs
  5. kerchieved
  6. kerchieves
  7. kerching
  8. kerchink
  9. Kerchner
  10. Kerchners
  11. kerchoo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kerchieves (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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