handkerchieved

At this day, you need be no very acute physiognomist to see the class of society to which those slatternly drabs of women, those low-browed, pasty-faced, bull necked, belcher-handkerchieved, ruffianly-looking male creatures, who hang about the street corners, or the well-worn doors of sing-song public houses, or the outlets of filthy courts, belong.

1861, George Augustus Sala, “The Streets of the World: Their Ins and Outs, Their Lights and Shadows, Their Houses and Their Inhabitants. […] First Series. Street the Fifth. Drury Lane, London.”, in The Welcome Guest: A Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, London: Houlston and Wright […], page 676, column 1

There was Lord de Flukey, with his “aw” in “chawming” and similar murders of the Anglo-Saxon, a light haired, one-eye-glassed, middle-parted, three-silk-handkerchieved “admirer;” […]

1876, Humpty Dumpty [pseudonym; Richard Gerner], The Winning O’t!, Memphis, Tenn.: W. L. Surprise, […], page 9

Do the fly-ridden commercial ports of the Spanish Main entirely harmonise with the blue and gold chromos of handsome, handkerchieved pirates strutting on top-heavy caravels?

1935, Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, volume forty-six, page 376, column 1

Otherwise it was all very much the same—the same demure little girls, handkerchieved, gloved and confident in new dresses, and the same brushed and burnished little boys, occasionally nudging and grinning.

1962 May 31, “About Ashby: Preservation of Appleby Moat House”, in Burton Observer and Chronicle, numbers B.C. 5,252, B.O. 2,833, page 4, column 4

So let’s add a man in a soldier’s uniform to our mental pictures of these high hatted, long coated men and the handkerchieved neckline and long flowing dresses of the women, when we talk about Thanksgiving.

1965 November 24, Dorothy C. Meyer, “Along the Way: Standish, A Brave Man With Pilgrims”, in Centre Daily Times, volume 68, number 230, State College, Pa.; Bellefonte, Pa., page eleven, column 1