"pocket-handkerchief" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15",
          "text": "Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.",
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        {
          "ref": "1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt",
          "text": "‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’",
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        {
          "ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 13, in Wuthering Heights",
          "text": "[…] I groped from step to step, collecting the shattered earthenware, and drying the spatters of milk from the banister with my pocket-handkerchief.",
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          "ref": "1868 September 8, “Police News”, in The Cambria Daily Leader, number 2,258, page 3, column 4",
          "text": "P.C. Phillips took prisoner into custody, and found the money in his possession, and several pocket-handkerchieves, which had been missed some weeks before.",
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          "ref": "1876, Edward Whitaker, “Tempus est Ludendi”, in Parley Magna. A Novel., volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 57",
          "text": "There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like any chapelers, to Zoar.",
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          "ref": "1888 November 15, The Abilene Weekly Chronicle, volume XIX, number 34, Abilene, Kan., page [8], column 3",
          "text": "The election of General Harrison is the triumph of the national over the sectional idea; of the great over the little, of the standard of a powerful country over the pocket-handkerchieves of an elderly politician; and all that is needed to bring about the general prosperity of the whole country of one section as much as another, is an intelligent appreciation of what has happened.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1891, Henry James, The Pupil.djvu/155), page 141",
          "text": "She laughed […] while she flirted a soiled pocket-handkerchief at him.",
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          "ref": "1896, E[dith] Nesbit, “Guilty”, in In Homespun, London: John Lane, […]; Boston, Mass.: Roberts Bros., page 128",
          "text": "He wore curious clothes, not like most gentlemen, but all wool things, even to his collars and his boots, which were soft and soppy like felt; and he took snuff to that degree I wouldn’t have believed any human nose could have borne it, and he must have been a great trial to Mrs. Oliver until she got used to him and his pottering about all over the house in his soft-soled shoes; and the mess he made of his pocket-handkerchieves and his linen!",
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          "ref": "2014 April 26, Julia McKay, “Scents and sensibility”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, page A2",
          "text": "The 63 year-old Cratzbarg is known for his flamboyant personality and style, with his signature black-framed glasses, big watches and a silk pocket-handkerchief.",
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          "ref": "2015 January 13, Mark Swed, “Still perplexing and astounding”, in Los Angeles Times, page E4",
          "text": "He wore a baggy tuxedo with a white pocket-handkerchief.",
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          "ref": "1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography, page 74",
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          "ref": "2002 January 19, Tim Wapshott, “I lost my heart in Nohant-en-Graçay, France”, in The Guardian",
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          "ref": "1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt",
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          "ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 13, in Wuthering Heights",
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          "text": "The election of General Harrison is the triumph of the national over the sectional idea; of the great over the little, of the standard of a powerful country over the pocket-handkerchieves of an elderly politician; and all that is needed to bring about the general prosperity of the whole country of one section as much as another, is an intelligent appreciation of what has happened.",
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        },
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          "text": "He wore a baggy tuxedo with a white pocket-handkerchief.",
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