mouchoir
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A nostalgic patina permeates the poignant metier which broods over the pervading mouchoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's his mouchoir," said my friend, laughing heartily, as did the gentleman when the mistake was explained to him, and we all took off our hats to one another.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
She had been embroidering a mouchoir case for Clarence that unfortunate afternoon of Darrell's performance, when she heard loud talking in the piazza.
From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.
Instead of a Madras or painted turban-kerchief, she binds a plain mouchoir neatly and closely about her head; and if her hair be long, it is combed back and gathered into a loop behind.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
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 Sanborn, Kate
"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 Hearn, Lafcadio
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 Hearn, Lafcadio
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