Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A handkerchief used like the modern pocket-handkerchief, but generally carried at the girdle.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A handkerchief.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A handkerchief.
Etymologies
- Spanish mocador. Compare mokadour. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“BABY CAKE (_Twelfth cake_), dressed like a boy, in a fine long coat, biggin bib, muckender, and a little dagger; his usher bearing a great cake, with a bean and a pease.”
“BABY-CAKE, drest like a boy, in a fine long coat, biggin-bib, muckender, and a little dagger; his usher bearing a great cake, with a bean and a pease.”
“How I laughed at hearing of her throwing a second muckender to a Methusalem!”
“Moreover, it was she who knew how to play the tabret and sing 'The water runneth to the ravine' and lead up the haye and the round, when need was, with a fine muckender in her hand and a quaint, better than any woman of her neighbourhood; by reason of which things my lord priest became so sore enamoured of her that he was like to lose his wits therefor and would prowl about all day long to get a sight of her.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muckender’.
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Handkerchiefs, etc.
handkerchief, kerchief, veronica, sudary, sudarium, hankie, keverchief, neckcloth, neckerchief, maniple, orarium, bandana and 41 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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4Q2009
ya es hora. hagas..., muckender, runagate, sleeping policeman, slot walking, silver mining, escarpment, gabion, isostasy, permeable groin, riprap, tombolo and 6 more...
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