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HANDKERCHIEF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
Synonyms:
handkerchief; hankey; hankie; hanky
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("handkerchief" is a kind of...):
piece of cloth; piece of material (a separate part consisting of fabric)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "handkerchief"):
bandana; bandanna (large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief)
pocket-handkerchief (a handkerchief that is carried in a pocket)
Context examples:
Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I shouted loudly and waved my handkerchief.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Isabella, in the meanwhile, had applied her handkerchief to her eyes; and Morland, miserable at such a sight, could not help saying, Nay, Catherine.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They were no sooner in the passage than Marianne came hastily out of the parlour apparently in violent affliction, with her handkerchief at her eyes; and without noticing them ran up stairs.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I was so firmly bound that I could not move, and a handkerchief round my mouth prevented me from uttering a sound.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sweat burst through the skin of his forehead in tiny beads, and he paused and mopped his bronzed face with his handkerchief.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Mycroft took snuff from a tortoise-shell box, and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat front with a large, red silk handkerchief.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Nigel alone, unconscious to all appearance of the universal panic, walked with unfaltering step up the centre of the road, a silken handkerchief in one hand and his gold comfit-box in the other.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
