a simple, close-fitting cap worn by women in colonial America.
2.
a kerchief worn by Scottish women.
Origin: 1400–50; late ME kerche, c(o)urche, back formation from courche(i)s (pl.) < MF couvrech(i)es, pl. of couvrechefkerchief; the final e of the sing. form, orig. long, was later lost
[kurch] 
