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SCARF , a narrow wrap for the See also:

NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck or shoulders; the See also:

TERM

term is a wide one, ranging from a See also:

LIGHT

light See also:

BAND

band of See also:

SILK

silk, See also:

MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

muslin or other material worn by See also:

WOMEN

women as a decorative See also:

PART

part of their See also:

costume to a warm knitted muffler of See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool to protect the See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat from See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold. The O. Eng. scearfe meant a piece or fragment of any-thing, and is to be referred ultimately to the See also:

root skar-, to cut, seen in Dutch scherf, shred, Ger. Scherbe, potsherd, " scrap," a piece or fragment; " See also:

SCRIP

scrip," a piece of See also:

leather, hence a pouch or wallet. The particular meanings in See also:

ENGLISH

English are to be referred to Fr. escharpe, See also:

PILGRIM

pilgrim's wallet, also scarf. The ecclesiastical " scarf " was originally a loose wrap or muffler (band) to be worn See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the neck out of doors. In the English See also:

Church, in See also:

POST

post-See also:

Reformation times, the See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister wore over the See also:

SURPLICE (Late Lat. superpelliceum; Fr. super, over, and pellis, fur; Span. sobrepellice; Fr. surplis; in Ital. cotta and Ger. Chorrock, choir coat)

surplice the " scarf," which was a broad band of See also:

black silk with fringed ends arranged like the See also:

STOLE (Lat. stela and orarium, Fr. etole, It. stola, Sp. estola, Ger. Stela)

stole round the neck, but falling nearly to the feet. Its use has been almost entirely replaced by that of the stole (q.v.), with which it has sometimes been wrongly confused. Ultimately from the same root, but directly adapted from the Scandinavian, cf.

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