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A kerchief is a square of cloth worn on the head or around the neck — to keep hair back, keep off the sun, or just as dress. It is a slightly old-fashioned, storybook word: a grandmother in a kitchen, a dancer at a folk festival, a cowboy in a film. In everyday English now we more often say scarf, bandana, or . Though actually the old word never quite died; it hid inside handkerchief (the small cloth for your nose) and (the one scouts and cowboys tie at the neck). A kerchief is usually square. A long winter scarf is a different shape, even if both can go round the neck.
頭巾；方巾（圍在頭上或脖子上的方布。手帕是 handkerchief，不要用這個詞去對）
組成From Old French couvrechief: couvrir, “to cover,” plus chief, “head” — literally “cover-head.” Middle English had forms like keverchef and coverchef.
同家族的字
- handkerchiefhand + kerchief: a small cloth, once for the head, now usually for the nose
- neckerchiefa kerchief worn around the neck
- curfewfrom French couvre-feu, “cover the fire”; it shares the old “cover” piece, not the meaning
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kerchiefnoun/ˈkɝ.t͡ʃɪf/
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datedA 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 […]
- “Well, did you find some?” she asked from under the white kerchief, turning her handsome, gently smiling face to him.
kerchiefverb/ˈkɝ.t͡ʃɪf/
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datedTo cover with a kerchief.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。