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Definition of Pocket-handkerchief
1. Noun. A handkerchief that is carried in a pocket.
Definition of Pocket-handkerchief
1. Adjective. small, or of restricted size. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket-handkerchief
Literary usage of Pocket-handkerchief
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"... pocket-handkerchief —Debate on the Catholic Bill—The Duke of Richmond—Effects
of Dawson's Speech on the King— The Bill in Jeopardy—Lady Jersey and Lord ..."
2. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King by Charles Greville, Henry Reeve (1874)
"... pocket-handkerchief—Debate on the Catholic Bill—The Duke of Richmond—Effects
of Dawson's Speech on the King —The Bill in Jeopardy—Lady Jersey and Lord ..."
3. Great Expectations ; Master Humphrey's Clock: With Introduction,critical by Charles Dickens (1908)
"He always carried (I have not yet mentioned it, I think) a pocket-handkerchief
of rich silk and of imposing proportions, which was of great value to him in ..."
4. The vicomte de Bragelonne; or, Ten years later by Alexandre Dumas (1858)
"... pocket-handkerchief. MADAME was not bad-hearted, she was only hasty and impetuous.
The king was not imprudent, he was only in love. ..."
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