pockethandkerchief

A form of pocket handkerchief — handkerchief

Scrabble 42

Meanings

nounpockethandkerchief (plural pockethandkerchiefs or pockethandkerchieves)

plural pockethandkerchiefs · plural pockethandkerchieves

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pocket handkerchief.

    I had all he required made here, he ondly [sic] needed some pockethandkerchieves.

    1844 May 22, Floride Calhoun, “From Floride [Colhoun] Calhoun”, in Clyde N[orman] Wilson, editor, The Papers of John C. Calhoun, volume XVIII (1844), University of South Carolina Press, published 1989, →ISBN, page 580
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