pocket handkerchief• The only dab of colour was a dark blue pocket handkerchief.• With his pocket handkerchief the Major wiped the window pane.• With a large pocket handkerchief he wiped the perspiration from his forehead; it was getting hot.• Finding her own pocket handkerchief, she gave it into the old lady's other hand.
ˌpocket-ˈhandkerchiefadjectiveadj [only before noun]British EnglishBrE informal
SMALLa pocket-handkerchief garden or area of land is very small and usually square 〔花园或地方〕小而方的