Noun: scarf
| Singular | scarf |
| Plural | scarves; scarfs |
Sample Sentences
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Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like scarf
Mobius scarf,
Moebius scarf,
head-scarf,
Palestinian scarf,
head scarf,
presheaf,
moebius scarf,
government wharf,
doorleaf,
bloodleaf,
capsheaf,
mobius scarf,
theif,
theef,
wharf,
scarf,
shelf,
sheaf,
headscarf,
cloven hoof, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.
Verbs referencing "scarf"
Danish Nouns
skærf.