noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pocket handkerchief
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clean
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I wrapped a clean handkerchief round it.
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Strain the shrimp water into a container through a clean handkerchief or fine muslin cloth.
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A not very clean handkerchief trailed from the top pocket.
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Will we have clean handkerchiefs here, every day, as a matter of course, wondered Melanie apprehensively.
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In the pocket also there had been a clean handkerchief with a small card caught between its folds.
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Frank always carried a clean handkerchief .
large
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His face was flushed and damp and he mopped his forehead with a large handkerchief .
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Tansy was crying into a large white handkerchief provided by Jules.
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With a large pocket handkerchief he wiped the perspiration from his forehead; it was getting hot.
red
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Crowds lining the banked track cheered as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a red handkerchief .
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He had evidently just eaten a meal, for the remains of it lay in a red handkerchief open on the ground.
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He had two pens in his top pocket, and a red handkerchief rammed up his sleeve.
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Sorting the linen, the towels, the sheets, the red handkerchiefs , such as the navvies use.
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Rex spied out Sam Maggott hollering at all and sundry and making good use of his over-sized red gingham handkerchief .
white
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One man throwing a white handkerchief , climbing out, was hit with silent precision in the eye.
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From her purse, my friend produced a freshly laundered white cotton handkerchief .
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She managed to wait until Héloïse had left the room before rummaging in her sleeve for her big white handkerchief .
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The Nurseryman has tears glistening on his cheeks; he blows his nose into a white handkerchief .
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Haverford also sat, lifting his panama to mop his flushed forehead with a red and white spotted handkerchief .
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Tansy was crying into a large white handkerchief provided by Jules.
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He took a white handkerchief from the top pocket of his jacket and wiped his forehead.
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Very few cars passed - some with white handkerchiefs draped around their radio aerials.
■ NOUN
lace
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A friend fills hers with miniature whisky bottles for the men and lace handkerchiefs for the women.
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The Prime Minister belched into a lace handkerchief and began speaking over the slow chanting of his name.
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She wiped her eyes with a lace handkerchief and he caught the drift of her exotic scent.
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Miss Sadie enjoyed the bath story so much, she brought out a lace handkerchief to wipe her eyes.
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She eagerly took the mirror and the lace handkerchief he handed to her, and listened to his instructions.
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The only dab of colour was a dark blue pocket handkerchief .
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Farini carried a wash tub, lowered a pail into the river, and rinsed out a dozen pocket handkerchiefs .
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Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady's other hand.
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With his pocket handkerchief the Major wiped the window pane.
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With a large pocket handkerchief he wiped the perspiration from his forehead; it was getting hot.
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Three stingrays glide past like abandoned white pocket handkerchiefs .
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Look down from the viewpoint and see the terraced land - minute cultivated pocket handkerchiefs .
silk
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It's a Gestapo Officer's silk handkerchief .
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Uncle Shim would dab his mouth with a silk handkerchief , adjusting his green jade bowtie.
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He dried his eyes with a silk handkerchief .
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He had neither grey hair nor a silk handkerchief .
■ VERB
hold
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Alison held a handkerchief to her mouth.
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Demetros and Katena faced one another holding a handkerchief stretched between them.
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Farrar was back with the rest, holding a handkerchief to his eye.
pull
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As he went he pulled a handkerchief out of his trouser pocket.
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It was a long time before he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his face.
take
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He took a handkerchief from his pocket to hold against his cheek.
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He took out his handkerchief and gave it to me.
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In one scene he had to take a handkerchief out of his pocket, and in the process shower Maggie Smith with nuts.
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The man took a handkerchief from his suit pocket and wiped his face.
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He took out a handkerchief and dried his face, hid behind it to prepare an expression to meet his wife.
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She took out a handkerchief and pressed it against her eyes, then blew her nose.
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He just smiled, took a handkerchief out of his pocket and started cleaning them.
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Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
wave
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If the gladiator fell how many of his colleagues would wave a handkerchief of mercy?
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Windows were flung up; and women leaned out into the rain, waving flags and handkerchiefs .
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As the train drew out our dear friends on the platform blew kisses, shed tears and waved their handkerchiefs .
wipe
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I pulled it off gently, so as not to wake him, moistened a handkerchief with cologne and wiped his forehead.
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Miss Sadie enjoyed the bath story so much, she brought out a lace handkerchief to wipe her eyes.
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With his pocket handkerchief the Major wiped the window pane.
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Frank had sat up and taken out his handkerchief and wiped his nose.
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He took out a handkerchief , and wiped his face.
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With a large pocket handkerchief he wiped the perspiration from his forehead; it was getting hot.
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It was a long time before he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After he had jerked out his desire into an already grubby handkerchief he had cried a little, sick with disgust.
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He took out a handkerchief and dried his face, hid behind it to prepare an expression to meet his wife.
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I leaned across his wife and wiped his forehead with my handkerchief .
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Julia rubbed her eyes with a handkerchief and then went to retrieve her drink.
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Presumably the decline of domestic servants to launder the disgusting handkerchiefs.
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She managed to wait until Héloïse had left the room before rummaging in her sleeve for her big white handkerchief .
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Then his startled gaze met the glowing eyes above the white patch of the handkerchief the man was holding at his mouth.
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You couldn't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time.