hankie
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He is the picture of success, in a three-piece suit, pocket hankie and a white fedora.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
“Keep your hankie in your bag; it’s not meant to be twisted.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
When he dropped the hankie to the floor, there was inevitably a scramble amongst the audience to retrieve it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2018
This I hated to see, if only because one of the great things about Ms. Olds’s verse is that she never seems to be carrying a hankie at all, much less a fancy hankie.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2016
He buried his face in a hankie, by turns lighting it on fire and then dousing the flames with his tears.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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