scarf

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  1. noun A long piece of cloth worn about the head, neck, or shoulders.
  2. noun A decorative cloth for covering the top of a piece of furniture; a runner.
  3. noun A sash indicating military rank.
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  • Her face above the scarf was the countenance of an empress. —  The Historian
  • Across the centre of the scarf was a long brown stain. —  A Guilty Thing Surprised
  • Made from pure silk and carefully treated with luxurious patterns, this scarf is a truly beautiful addition to your wardrobe. —  Free Textile News – Textiles RSS XML Feeds – Fibre2fashion.com
  • "Dunkin Donuts has capitulated and withdrawn an advertisement for its products following the allegation ... that the spokeswoman in the ad was wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf which is a staple of clothing traditionally worn by Palestinian men," the ANSWER Coalition said in a statement. —  The Jawa Report
  • A bidding war broke out for the scarf, and Tonello pocketed a tidy profit. —  independent.com stories
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  1. French dialectal escarpe, sash, sling, from Old North French, variant of Old French escherpe, pilgrim's bag hung from the neck, from Frankish *skirpja, small rush, from Latin scirpus, rush.
  2. Middle English skarf, as in scarfnail, probably from Old Norse skarfr, end piece of a board cut off on the bias.
  3. Variant of scoff2.

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  1. Formerly also skarf, also scarph, apparently simulating scarf as a variant of scarp; from Swedish skarf, a scarf, seam, joint, a piece sewed to another (cf. Norwegian skarv, an end or fragment of a board or plank, = Anglo-Saxon scearfe, a fragment, piece, = Dutch scherf, a shred, = German scherbe, a fragment, shard); associated with the verb, Swedish skarfva, join together, sew together, piece out (cf. in comp. skarf-yxa, an adz), = Norwegian skarva, make even (by adding or taking away), equalize, balance, settle (accounts), = Danish skarve, scarf, = Anglo-Saxon scearfian, cut small, shred, scrape (the Anglo-Saxon would give English *sharf, n., *sharve, v.), = German dial. (Bavarian) scharben, cut, notch (timber), German scharben, cut small; apparently, with a formative or addition -f (-v), from the same source as the nearly equivalent Icelandic skör, a rim, edge, joint in a ship's planking, a plank, row of benches or steps, = Norwegian skar, a cut, notch, scarf, = Danish dial. skar, a cut, notch (cf. Icelandic skāri = Norwegian skaar = Swedish skår, a cut made by a scythe, a swath, = Danish skaar, a cut, incision, swath, skaare, a cut, notch), whence the verb, Icelandic skara, clinch (the planks of a boat) so that each overlaps the plank beneath it, = Norwegian skara, join, bring together, clinch (the planks of a ship), etc., = Danish skarre, join, scarp; from Icelandic skera = Anglo-Saxon sceran, etc., cut, shear: see shear. The words from this verb are very numerous, and some forms of its derivatives are confused with others. The sense ‘cut’ appears to be due to the Anglo-Saxon; the sense ‘join’ to Scandinavian The noun scarf, in English, may be from the verb.
  2. from Swedish skarfva, join together, sew together, piece out, = Norwegian skarva, make even, = Danish skarve, usually skarre, scarf: see scarf, n.
  3. An altered form of scarp, apparently simulating scarf: see scarp.
  4. from scarf, n.
  5. Also irreg. (Scots) scart, skart, scarth; from Icelandic skarfr = Norwegian Swedish skarf, the green cormorant.
 

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