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handkerchiefed

handkerchiefed adjective: wearing a handkerchief (neckwear).

Adjective

handkerchiefed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a handkerchief (neckwear).
    • […]whatever was lost in elegance, was compensated in another point of view: their necks, of the most luxuriant prominence, ‘[…]’ were modestly handkerchiefed to their throats;[…].1803, S[amuel] J[ackson] Pratt, “To the Reader”, in Gleanings in England; Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Character of the Country. With New Views of Peace and War., volume III, London: […]...
    • How different from the eloquence of your white handkerchiefed whiners—your ring-displaying, faultering, fawning, frothy weavers of pathetic periods—your soft, simpering saints, from whose mouths the religion of the Bible falls diluted and dulcified, like the meretricious moonlight burdens of an...1819, [John Gibson Lockhart], “Letter LXI”, in Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk, the third edition, volume the third, […] William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies...

Forms of handkerchiefed

alternative formhandkerchieved

Origin of handkerchiefed

From handkerchief + -ed.

Questions about handkerchiefed

What does handkerchiefed mean?
Handkerchiefed means wearing a handkerchief (neckwear).
What part of speech is handkerchiefed?
Handkerchiefed is an adjective.

Words near handkerchiefed in the dictionary

  1. handkerchief
  2. handkerchief code
  3. handkerchief codes
  4. handkerchief tree
  5. handkerchief trees
  6. handkerchiefed
  7. handkerchiefful
  8. handkerchieffuls
  9. handkerchiefless
  10. handkerchiefs
  11. handkerchieved

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