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- adjective Without a
handkerchief or handkerchieves.
Etymologies
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handkerchief + -less
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Examples
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Often had Maitland regretted the chronic cold and handkerchiefless condition of his bedmaker; but now her sniff was welcome as music, much more so than that of two hunting horns which ambitious sportsmen were trying to blow in quad.
The Mark Of Cain Andrew Lang 1878
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