mouchoir
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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
“Better late than never,” she said to herself, as she dived into a drawer and upset her mouchoir case in search for a particular handkerchief.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
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
For the man the costume consists of a gray shirt of Iuugh material, blue canvas pantaloons, a large mouchoir fatas to tie around his waist, and a chapeau Bacoué,—an enormous hat of Martinique palm-straw.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
The dressing-case, the jewel-box, the perfume-bottles; the velvet-lined and delicately-scented mouchoir and glove boxes; the varied trifles, so idle in detail, so essential to the whole,—all were there, and all evidently in constant use.
From Outpost by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
"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
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
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
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