handkerchiefless

adj

handkerchiefless

adj

Etymology From handkerchief + -less.

1

Without a handkerchief or handkerchieves.

The younger children were mere pocket-handkerchiefless brats, whose mission on earth seemed to be to get in the way and have their ears boxed...1862, Albany de Grenier Fonblanque, A tangled skein:
I saw a million handkerchiefless children. I saw hundreds of villages in which the community handkerchief, modern sanitation, was absolutely unknown.1916, Foreign Christian Missionary Society, The Missionary intelligencer:

2 more examples

...she was brought up in California, and only came to England when her character was formed ; but I never expected to have a handkerchiefless friend.1922, Eliakim Littell, Robert S Littell, The Living Age:
A sudden sneeze may soil the hands, especially of a handkerchiefless patient, two minutes after they are washed...1924, John Augustus Lapp, editor, The Nation's Health:

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