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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY |
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SCARF , a narrow wrap for the neck or shoulders; the term
silk
part
throat from cold. The O. Eng. scearfe meant a piece or fragment of any-thing, and is to be referred ultimately to the root skar-, to cut, seen in Dutch scherf, shred, Ger. Scherbe, potsherd, " scrap," a piece or fragment; " scrip," a piece of leather, hence a pouch or wallet. The particular meanings in English are to be referred to Fr. escharpe, pilgrim
Church
silk
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. Swed. skarf, joint , is the use of the word " scarf," in carpentry
joinery
joint by which two timbers are fastened together longitudinally so as to form a continuous piece (see JOINERY
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