pocket-handkerchief

NOUN
  1. a handkerchief that is carried in a pocket
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How To Use pocket-handkerchief In A Sentence

  • And he changed his tie and pocket-handkerchief every few minutes. Globe and Mail
  • I simply needed to be content with staring aimlessly at his amazing pinstripe suit and perfectly styled pocket-handkerchief Alex Geana: Street Style: My Week in Shopping and Charity Events
  • He looked poorly, and was dressed in a red cotton pocket-handkerchief. The Tales of Beatrix Potter
  • The way of carrying money in the corner of a pocket-handkerchief is still common. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty-white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • The Mother Superior is greatly overcome by your Excellency's munificence towards the convent, and much perturbed at being unable to send you a specimen of your protégée's skill, exemplified in an embroidered pocket-handkerchief or a pair of mittens; but the fact is that poor Dionea has no skill. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Left alone at his stall as the other ambled off, Mr Wegg subsided into his screen, produced a small pocket-handkerchief of a penitentially-scrubbing character, and took himself by the nose with a thoughtful aspect. Our Mutual Friend
  •  Doc sat there, sneezing and sniffling, blowing his nose into a pocket-handkerchief the size and color of a bed sheet. Mona
  • The way of carrying money in the corner of a pocket-handkerchief is still common. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It was soon translated into every language of Europe -- (Hood used to laugh as he wondered how they would render "Seam and gusset and band," into Dutch); it was printed and sold as catchpennies, printed on cotton pocket-handkerchiefs, it was illustrated and parodied in a thousand ways; and the greatest triumph of all, which brought tears of joy to The History of "Punch"
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