Pocket-handkerchief must be one of the queerest words in the language. At first it was kerchief ("couvre-chef"), a covering for tho head; then it became handkerchief, a covering for the head carried in the hand; and at last pockethandkerchief, a covering for the head, held in hand, hut kept in a jwckejL '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 8
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