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Pocket-handkerchief

noun

A handkerchief that is carried in a pocket.

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"Pocket-handkerchief" Quotes from Famous Books

... doubtfully at her mistress. 'Perhaps if you were to tie this handkerchief round your face, as if you'd got toothache, you'd pass better,' she suggested, handing Sarah a large white pocket-handkerchief with a coloured border. ...

— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin

... stronger gust shook a few cones upon them; an enormous crow mockingly repeated the father's coarse laugh, and a squirrel scampered away from the strangely assorted pair as Steptoe, wiping his eyes and forehead with his pocket-handkerchief, said:— ...

— The Three Partners • Bret Harte

... Fay getting up and going to bed resolved themselves into feats of delicious dexterity that custom could not stale. The underneaths of tables were caves and dungeons, chairs became chariots at will, and every night little Fay waved a diminutive pocket-handkerchief to Tony from the deck of an ocean-going ...

— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker

... stepped out on the terrace, from one of the open windows, trailing a newspaper like a pocket-handkerchief. Cecilia threaded ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... information of his Cockney readers that he hoisted his Flag yesterday at the main peak. The weather was, however, so windy and wet that after hiding himself with his honoured father under the cuddy for half an hour, the Admiral thought that prudence was part of his duty, therefore struck his Pocket-handkerchief and retired to luncheon. A Salute from a black ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

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