handkerchiefed

English

Alternative forms

• handkerchieved

Etymology

From handkerchief +‎ -ed.

Adjective

handkerchiefed (not comparable)

1. Wearing a handkerchief (neckwear).
   • 1803, S[amuel] J[ackson] Pratt, “To the Reader”, in Gleanings in England; Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Character of the Country. With New Views of Peace and War., volume III, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], page xxv:

     […] whatever was lost in elegance, was compensated in another point of view: their necks, of the most luxuriant prominence, ‘[…]’ were modestly handkerchiefed to their throats; […].

   • 1819, [John Gibson Lockhart], “Letter LXI”, in Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk, the third edition, volume the third, […] William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, London, page 77:

     How different from the eloquence of your white handkerchiefed whiners—your ring-displaying, faultering, fawning, frothy weavers of pathetic periods—your soft, simpering saints, from whose mouths the religion of the Bible falls diluted and dulcified, like the meretricious moonlight burdens of an Irish melody!

   • [1855], Old Humphrey [pseudonym; George Mogridge], “Old Humphrey as a Tourist”, in Memoir of Old Humphrey; with Gleanings from His Portfolio, in Prose and Verse, London: The Religious Tract Society, page 82:

     Two figures approached, handkerchiefed and great-coated for travel with a goodly appendage of trunks and portmanteaus, partly borne by themselves, and partly carried by a porter.

   • 2006 March 3, “At a glance: Your one-stop shop on today’s headlines”, in Daily Reporter, Greenfield, Ind., section “Bono, U2 praise rights group in Argentina”, page 2A:

     Five of the famously handkerchiefed Mothers [of the Plaza de Mayo], whose children disappeared during a state crackdown on dissent during the 1976-83 junta, were on hand Thursday night for the last of two shows the band performed before more than 60,000 fans.