Pocket-handkerchief

Quick meaning: Pocket-handkerchief is a noun meaning (attributive) Of small or restricted size.

Meaning

(attributive) Of small or restricted size.

Example Sentences

Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.

‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’

[…] I groped from step to step, collecting the shattered earthenware, and drying the spatters of milk from the banister with my pocket-handkerchief.

P.C. Phillips took prisoner into custody, and found the money in his possession, and several pocket-handkerchieves, which had been missed some weeks before.

Word Forms

• pocket-handkerchiefs
• pocket-handkerchieves

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pocket, vest-pocket, hip-pocket, pocket-size, vestpocket, narrow-gauge.

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