handkerchief• He took out a handkerchief and dried his face, hid behind it to prepare an expression to meet his wife.• Julia rubbed her eyes with a handkerchief and then went to retrieve her drink.• Presumably the decline of domesticservants to launder the disgustinghandkerchiefs.• After he had jerked out his desire into an already grubbyhandkerchief he had cried a little, sick with disgust.• I leaned across his wife and wiped his forehead with my handkerchief.• Then his startledgaze met the glowing eyes above the white patch of the handkerchief the man was holding at his mouth.• You couldn't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time.• She managed to wait until Héloïse had left the room before rummaging in her sleeve for her big white handkerchief.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + HANDKERCHIEFADJECTIVE➤clean乾淨的手絹▸➤crumpled, dirty皺巴巴的/髒兮兮的手帕▸➤pocket手帕▸➤lace, linen, paper, silk花邊手絹;亞麻手帕;紙巾;絲帕▸➤embroidered繡花手帕VERB + HANDKERCHIEF➤blow your nose on, use用手帕擤鼻子;用手帕◇He blew his nose on a dirty handkerchief.他用一塊髒兮兮的手帕擤鼻涕。➤wave揮動手絹