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Definition of Berdash
1. n. A kind of neckcloth.
Definition of Berdash
1. Noun. (alternative form of berdache) ¹
2. Noun. A kind of neckcloth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Berdash
1. berdache [n -ES] - See also: berdache
Lexicographical Neighbors of Berdash
Literary usage of Berdash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"What is the berdash' and how is it connected, if at all, with the well-known term
haberdasher P Strutt, Planche, Fairholt, and other writers on ..."
2. Trailmakers of the Northwest by Paul Leland Haworth (1921)
"Among the Ojibwas who visited Henry's post on Red River was a young Indian named
berdash. He was considered effeminate in his ways, but was the swiftest ..."
3. Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell (1911)
"killed, but the party with berdash escaped without any accident, in the following
manner: One of them had got from the Sioux a bow, but only a few arrows. ..."
4. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"I have prepared a treatise against the Cravat and berdash, which I am told is
not ill done.' 1 Some have imagined that the word haberdasher is derived from ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"berdash," a note says, " was a kind of neckcloth ?o called, whence such as sold
them were styled haberdashers." ?f No. 16, p. 88. French and English songs ..."
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