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pocket-handkerchief
[ pok-it-hang-ker-chif, -cheef ]
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Origin of pocket-handkerchief1
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Example Sentences
He remembered the log-house and his supper, when Mandy Ann served from a dinner-plate, and his napkin was a pocket handkerchief.
He then drew from his kimono sleeve a pink-bordered foreign pocket-handkerchief, and began to mop his damp forehead.
Bruce took out his embroidered pocket-handkerchief, redolent with scent, and blew his nose affectedly.
The largest and the least dirty white pocket-handkerchief they could find was immediately fastened on to the end of a broomstick.
He thought about things like lock-jaw and gangrene and his hand trembled as he tied his pocket-handkerchief around the wound.
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