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pocket-handkerchieves

pocket-handkerchieves is the plural of pocket-handkerchief.

Meaning of pocket-handkerchief

Adjective

pocket-handkerchief (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) Of small or restricted size.
    • Throughout the land there is a great variation in the shape and size of village greens, from the many of pocket-handkerchief size to a roadside common of 20 acres or more - as at Lindfield in West Sussex.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, pages 264-265

Questions about pocket-handkerchieves

What is pocket-handkerchieves the plural of?
Pocket-handkerchieves is the plural of pocket-handkerchief.

Words near pocket-handkerchieves in the dictionary

  1. pocket-dials
  2. pocket-flask
  3. pocket-flasks
  4. pocket-handkerchief
  5. pocket-handkerchiefs
  6. pocket-handkerchieves
  7. pocket-hole
  8. pocket-hole jig
  9. pocket-hole jigs
  10. pocket-holes
  11. pocket-knife

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