mouchoir
Americannoun
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mouchoirs
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A nostalgic patina permeates the poignant metier which broods over the pervading mouchoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
That of Martinique is quite Oriental;—more attractive, although less fantastic than the Cayenne coiffure, or the pretty drooping mouchoir of Guadeloupe.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
No, I'll embroider on papa's mouchoir case; I've been at it for thirteen months.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Then I had something that's either a mouchoir or a handkerchief case, or for neckties, or shaving papers, or something or other.
From The Climbers A Play in Four Acts by Clyde Fitch
My new fan just matches my flowers, my gloves fit to a charm, and the real lace on Aunt's mouchoir gives an air to my whole dress.
From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Then go to my boudoir, open the rose-wood clothes case, bring down the skirts, a dozen or two of the mouchoirs, the laces and hose."
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
If the population clings still to its douillettes, mouchoirs, and foulards, the fact is largely due to the cheapness of such attire.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
Yet that fine French lady introduced the fashion of handkerchiefs by continually raising delicate lace mouchoirs to her lips to hide her bad teeth.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
A cheap trunk with broken hinges contains her modest little wardrobe: a few mouchoirs, or kerchiefs, used for head-dresses, a spare douillette, or long robe, and some tattered linen.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
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