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headkerchiefed en · ADJ

Etymology

From headkerchief + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a headkerchief.
   • Slyudianka, for example, the first town on the Trans-Baikal stretch of the line, is pure storybook Russia, with its distinctive green-and-blue wooden houses, the delicious smell of birch smoke in crisp air and headkerchiefed babas selling souvenirs and bits of food on the platform. 1989 January 28, Heather Hill, “People’s express has class but no party: Passengers forswear bourgeois comfort to bask in shady glamor”, in The Gazette, page I-3:
   • The little red-headkerchiefed girl who attends upon them has two responsible duties. 1892 August 25, a Tourist, “The Irish of Bloody Foreland”, in The Morning Post, number 37,504, London, page 2:
   • All those who have visited Paris will have noticed, sitting on a stool at the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l’Opéra, which is just opposite the Café de la Paix, a weather-beaten, headkerchiefed old lady offering key[-]rings for sale, and displaying, as if to whip up the sluggish altruism of passers-by, two wooden legs. 1892, Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review, volume IX, New York, N.Y.: The Current Literature Publishing Co., […], page 585:
   • “Again,” said Bellah, and still “again,” until the notes rang out lustily, and half a dozen head[-]kerchiefed old crones who had strayed in nodded with delight. 1901, Louise Seymour Houghton, The Silent Highway: A Story of the McAll Mission, New York, N.Y.: The Evangelist Publishing Company, […], page 62:
   • A large headkerchiefed woman came to the door to investigate the commotion. 1971 February 12, Loree Oursler, “Lead Belly”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 77, section D, page four:

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