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handkerchiefless

handkerchiefless adjective: without a handkerchief or handkerchieves.

Adjective

handkerchiefless (not comparable)

  1. Without a handkerchief or handkerchieves.
    • The younger children were mere pocket-handkerchiefless brats, whose mission on earth seemed to be to get in the way and have their ears boxed...1862, Albany de Grenier Fonblanque, A tangled skein
    • I saw a million handkerchiefless children. I saw hundreds of villages in which the community handkerchief, modern sanitation, was absolutely unknown.1916, Foreign Christian Missionary Society, The Missionary intelligencer

Examples of handkerchiefless in a sentence

  • ...she was brought up in California, and only came to England when her character was formed ; but I never expected to have a handkerchiefless friend.1922, Eliakim Littell, Robert S Littell, The Living Age:
  • A sudden sneeze may soil the hands, especially of a handkerchiefless patient, two minutes after they are washed...1924, John Augustus Lapp, editor, The Nation's Health:

Origin of handkerchiefless

From handkerchief + -less.

Questions about handkerchiefless

What does handkerchiefless mean?
Handkerchiefless means without a handkerchief or handkerchieves.
How do you use handkerchiefless in a sentence?
...she was brought up in California, and only came to England when her character was formed ; but I never expected to have a handkerchiefless friend.
What part of speech is handkerchiefless?
Handkerchiefless is an adjective.

Words near handkerchiefless in the dictionary

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

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