obs. ff. KERCH, KERCHIEF.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 155 (Treat. Crimes, IV. c. 39). Women suld not come to the kirk … with her face covered,… vnder the paine of escheit of the kurche.
a. 1700. Cock Laird, ii. in Ramsay’s Wks. (1877), II. 222. Kurchis and kirtles Are fitter for thee.
a. 1724. in Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), II. 170. Her kurchy was of holland clear.
1828. Buchan, Ballads (1875), I. 157 (E. D. D.). She’s taen the kurchie frae her head.
