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mouchoir

[ moo-shwar ]

/ muˈʃwar /

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noun, plural mou·choirs

[moo-shwar]. /muˈʃwar/. French.

a handkerchief.

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Words nearby mouchoir

Mo-tze, motzer, Mo-tzu, MOU, mouchette, mouchoir, moue, mouflon, mought, mouillé, moujik

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How to use mouchoir in a sentence

I will only pound the watch in my mortar--burn the mouchoir in my lamp, and make a pudding in the chapeau.
In the Days of My Youth|Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
Il portait la main, comme un plerin ou un 226 soldat, un paquet envelopp dans un mouchoir de soie.
Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 2 of 2)|Frances Trollope
Then I had something that's either a mouchoir or a handkerchief case, or for neckties, or shaving papers, or something or other.
The Climbers|Clyde Fitch
She said she was desolated; she 'adn't sufficient coal to take the chill off a mouchoir.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 10th, 1920|Various

I wonder what kind of presents you would like,—not beaded antimacassars and not mouchoir cases surely.
Molly Brown's College Friends|Nell Speed