Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A handkerchief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
handkerchief .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
handkerchief
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
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Examples
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My father comes out real slow in his black tuxedo with his little red silk hankie, takes his time "good evening ladies and gentlemen," and tells a long story, not afraid of the silences.
Thelma Adams: Bust a Hip -- Marlo Thomas Makes Us Fall Over Laughing Thelma Adams 2010
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My father comes out real slow in his black tuxedo with his little red silk hankie, takes his time "good evening ladies and gentlemen," and tells a long story, not afraid of the silences.
Thelma Adams: Bust a Hip -- Marlo Thomas Makes Us Fall Over Laughing Thelma Adams 2010
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
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She was one of the girls who flirted her way through a hair-mussing group number with Steven as the muss-ee, but went to pieces in Vegas and ended up sobbing on the ladies room floor while an "Idol" camera crew stood by without so much as throwing her a hankie.
'American Idol' 2011: Top 24 survive the Trail of Tears 2011
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
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At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan.
hernesheir commented on the word hankie
"A bucket for carrying water, narrower at the top than at the bottom, with an iron handle. One with a wooden handle is called a stowp." --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
May 20, 2011
sionnach commented on the word hankie
One has to wonder if Dr. Jamieson had been hitting the Jameson's when he wrote this "definition".
May 20, 2011