🇬🇧🇪🇸 kerchief - pañuelo : English Lesson

Meaning of "kerchief" ("pañuelo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A kerchief is a square piece of cloth that you can fold and tie around your head or your neck, often to look nice, to keep warm, or to keep hair and sweat out of your face.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I wore a skull-print kerchief and scared exactly no one, except myself in the bathroom mirror.

Mom wore a kerchief while cooking so her hair wouldn’t fall in the food; sadly, it didn’t stop my brother’s elbows from falling in.

At the picnic, I used my kerchief to keep the sun off my neck, then to wave at friends, and finally as an emergency ketchup wiper.

I tied a kerchief over my mouth like a cowboy, but instead of robbing a bank, I robbed the cookie jar.

People have worn kerchiefs for hundreds of years to protect their heads and necks, which means even ancient kids probably complained, “Do I HAVE to wear this?”

An old woman tied a bright kerchief around the girl's head; the kerchief flapped in wind. A dog caught that kerchief, tugged; the girl laughed and tied a second kerchief around her neck instead. The wind calmed, the dog chewed its kerchief, and both sat, smiling at the quiet street.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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