Definition of "scarf" []

• A long piece of cloth worn about the head, neck, or shoulders. (noun)
• A decorative cloth for covering the top of a piece of furniture; a runner. (noun)
• A sash indicating military rank. (noun)
• To dress, cover, or decorate with or as if with a scarf. (verb-transitive)
• To wrap (an outer garment) around one like a scarf. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Montagne: And everyone who wears a scarf is a Muslim?"
• "Writhing around his neck with the scarf is a thin white snake."
• "Wearing a scarf is the choice of an adult woman much as wearing a skirt is the choice of an adult Scottish man in the name of his Anglican/British/Anglo/White tradition."