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pocket-handkerchief

[ pok-it-hang-ker-chif, -cheef ]

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pocket-handkerchief1

First recorded in 1635–45
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Example Sentences

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“Well!†she cried, picking up the pocket-handkerchief, “if that don’t make seven times! What ARE you a-doing of this afternoon, Mum!â€

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It’s only a pocket-handkerchief size — it’s not a big garden — but nonetheless, there was something to be found, every time.

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Levit appeared on stage a fashionable young man with close-cropped hair and a fitted, stylish suit with a sharp white pocket-handkerchief that made him look like a film star from the '30s.

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He wore a baggy tuxedo with a white pocket-handkerchief.

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Take your pocket-handkerchief, pass it through the back of any ordinary chair, and bring the ends evenly towards you, holding them for an instant with your right hand, which must, pro tem., represent the buckle.

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