The word "handkerchief" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to a piece of soft cloth, often square in shape, which people use to wipe their noses and dab away tears. An example sentence could be: "He pulled out a white handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat from his brow."
Worshippers reported foul aromas and "a peculiar taste" during services, praising the Lord with a handkerchief pressed to their nostrils.
Fans used to roar with anticipation before his set-pieces, and he would play to the crowd by placing a coloured handkerchief over the ball and whipping it off like a magician before hoofing it in the general direction of the net.
When I do the scene with Desdemona and the handkerchief, I still hear myself doing it for Red Velvet and I'm tempted to strike the legs wide and cover my brow".
Andy Smith, a teenager from New Jersey, carries a handkerchief – on which his mother embroidered a Rubik's Cube – to wipe the sweat from his hands before he begins solving.
Instead, let me take you back to the Barrios in 1932, where I used to jerk myself off into a sperm-spotted handkerchief, while thinking of my mother.
When Clegg grabbed hold of the presenter's pocket handkerchief, Brooker, who has a disability, told him: "You've done enough bad things to the disabled".
Smeared on the body, it forgave sins; taken in water, it helped digestive complaints.Sceptics were always trying to show how it was done, saying that the Ash was a pellet crushed between His fingers, or that the gold and silver ellipsoidal lingams (the Form of the Formless) that He coughed up at certain festivals were in fact hidden in His handkerchief.
The battalion's members had been ordered to dress as students, to carry no identification save for a white glove or handkerchief on their wrists, and to block the exits from the plaza.
Exotic tubers and decorative blooms jostle carrots, spuds and beans in plots that range from pocket handkerchief to half a football pitch in size.
