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US
/ˈhæŋkɝtʃif, ˈhæŋkɝtʃɪf/
]
[ UK /hˈændkətʃˌiːf/ ]
[ UK /hˈændkətʃˌiːf/ ]
NOUN
- a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
How To Use handkerchief In A Sentence
- Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
- A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the White and Yellow
- The woman wiped her sweaty face with a bright red handkerchief and bobbed her head in the direction of the coopery. City of Glory
- We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
- He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.
- Yes, it's my handkerchief.
- handed her his pristine white handkerchief
- He is coughing green slime into a handkerchief and the penny drops. Times, Sunday Times
- He picked through cards and dice and handkerchiefs until he found three ropes of unequal lengths.
- But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields. Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains