- present tense form of match (3rd person singular).
matches
Example Sentences
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"The lasses—bonny witches— Were a' dressed up in aprons clean, And braw white Sunday mutches."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
At word of his coming the doors were filled with mutches and bald heads, keeking by the jambs to get a look.
From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas
A wheen auld wives wi' mutches and a wheen solemn men wi' hoasts!
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John
Close by the door, or rather the hole down which he had so unceremoniously tumbled, two little elderly women, in black aprons and white mutches, were busily engaged in grinding corn between two flat millstones.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
Her white columbines she calls "granny's mutches;" and indeed they are not unlike those fresh white caps.
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
