0 a square piece of cloth or paper used for cleaning the nose or drying the eyes when they are wet with tears:
1 a square piece of cloth used for blowing the nose or for cleaning the face or eyes
For example, the handkerchief, a common linen or cotton accessory, took many forms.
Yet the ' as now understood ' of the second sentence was the handkerchief beneath which the conjuring trick was accomplished.
Sharing everything with your neighbours, haven't even got a bit of garden to call your own except for that pocket handkerchief out there.
A pipe-maker was robbed of his muslin cravat, striped handkerchief, leather shoes and iron buckles.
It was an old bandanna handkerchief, heavy and knotted.
He wears a blue silk handkerchief around his neck.
This time he dashed at them with a clean handkerchief.
But the resourceful young woman has only pretended to eat, hiding the noisome food in a handkerchief.
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