Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A handkerchief.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obs. or Colloq. A handkerchief.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of handkerchief.

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Examples

  • At last met my Lord Mayor in Canningstreet, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck.

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  • At tea, my prisoner got up to fetch her pocket handkercher from the bedroom where the bonnets was; she was rather a long time gone and came back a little out of wind.

    Bleak House 2007

  • I ‘ll give it to my handkercher; and now ’tis here,

    The Duchess of Malfi 2007

  • The theeues thinking it had beene so many duckats of golde, searched no further: then they threw all my clothes in a bush, and hied them away, and as God would haue it, at their departure there fell from them an handkercher, and when I saw it, I rose from my Pallanchine or couch, and tooke it vp, and wrapped it together within my

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • "Well, you can sort of wind yer handkercher around your hands," comforted Isa.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • He will not draw his handkercher out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • The kay of the safe is under the door of the linny [1] to de left, and the chalice is in the basket, wrapped in the handkercher.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • And giving him many thankes for his good warning, presently takes the Chaine from about his necke, and tying it up fast in a handkercher put it up into his sleeue saying.

    The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.

  • Do you know, he went up to see her with his red hair plastered down with lard until it was a dull maroon colour; his square cotton handkercher was perfumed with kerosene, and I tell you he was a sight and a smell to remember; but Drew's sister stood it without a word.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • "My feelings may be overcome," said Peggy; "they generally is in public, and then I'll have to use my handkercher and show my hands."

    Joyce of the North Woods

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  • Ooh! Another one for my handkerchief list! Thanks, hh.

    January 4, 2012