What's the difference between bandana and kerchief?

Bandana


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
  • (n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
  • (2) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
  • (3) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
  • (4) Eighteen months ago they sent out a solitary photo of a group of kids in a car park , shrouded in smoke, their faces covered by white bandanas.
  • (5) They are pictured holding guns and dressed in desert camouflage and brown bandanas.
  • (6) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
  • (7) He told her that someone was there for her and as she opened the front door she was confronted by a figure in a grey hoodie, a bandana over his face and his hood up.
  • (8) But some officials believe it is a woman with a pony tail while others believe that is being confused for a bandana.
  • (9) We wore bandanas, and I bought a couple of “weskits”, but resisted the urge to add a pair of fringed leather chaps.
  • (10) He saw the padded jackets, the riot clubs, the helmets and the bandanas concealing the policemen's faces, changed his mind and ran up the stairs to escape.
  • (11) Several had shaved heads, most had beards, some had bandanas, most seemed middle-aged, a handful were young.
  • (12) A group of police officers walked by, and each one lifted the bandana which concealed his identity, leaned down and spat on her face.
  • (13) There's burnt cars, bins on fire, and hundreds of guys with bandanas round their faces.
  • (14) Hell yeah, I’m angry!” Hamilton says, pushing down her bandana to speak to me.
  • (15) What kind of response is that?” said Ibrahim Morocco, a protester wearing a red bandana.
  • (16) The soundbites keep coming from rock gods in bandanas praising Lemmy for his "realness" and his "badness", but none of these multi-millionaires are still drinking down at The Rainbow.
  • (17) Out of respect to Sikhs as he visited their holiest site, he wore a dark blue bandana on his head.
  • (18) The uniform: a white shirt and a red bandana neck tie.
  • (19) They buzz you in, check your ID, have videos monitoring and even have a dress code – one man was asked to take off his hooded top and bandana.
  • (20) 'He had a scarf like a bandana and a scarf on his mouth and he was carrying a machine gun,' she said.

Kerchief


Definition:

  • (n.) A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief.
  • (n.) A lady who wears a kerchief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I looked out the window and saw a shooter, a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well, holding a rifle and shooting an honour guard in front of the cenotaph point-blank, twice,” a witness, Tony Zobl, told the Canadian Press news agency.
  • (2) The disinfection of lab glassware and equipment, instruments, towels, kerchiefs, cloths, and white overalls and aprons is to be carried out with 1.5 per cent water solution of chloramine.

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