Definition of "handkercher" [hand•ker•cher]

• Obsolete form of handkerchief. (noun)

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• "At last met my Lord Mayor in Canningstreet, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck."
• "At tea, my prisoner got up to fetch her pocket handkercher from the bedroom where the bonnets was; she was rather a long time gone and came back a little out of wind."
• "I ‘ll give it to my handkercher; and now ’tis here,"