handkercher

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A form of handkerchief — A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.

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Meanings

nounhandkercher (plural handkerchers)

plural handkerchers

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of handkerchief.

    When your head did but ake, I knit my hand-kercher about your browes.

    c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]
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handkercher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/handkercher

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Chicago

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