berdash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bə(ɹ)ˈdæʃ/

Noun

berdash (plural berdashes)

1. Alternative form of berdache.
2. A kind of neckcloth.
   • 1712 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “MONDAY, November 24, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 544; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     a treatise against the cravat and berdash

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “berdash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• herbads, Bershad, brashed