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Related: Best Pie Recipes for Any Occasion 3 Handkerchief Bunting Kids will love helping set the mood for merriment by folding vintage hankies in half diagonally and hanging them on lengths of sturdy jute twine using small wooden clothespins.
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Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 24 June 2023
Threads fly and snag over the grid of hankies, and become their own calligraphy.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously.
—Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
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Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 24 June 2023
Threads fly and snag over the grid of hankies, and become their own calligraphy.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
Titanic remains a four-hankie crowd-pleaser par excellence, elevating a paper-thin love story to the scale of myth by placing it against the backdrop of incalculable human tragedy.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
Pulling a hankie out To wipe your brow surreptitiously.
—Hannah Aizenman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hankie
handkerchief
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Your man scent will usually keep small predator animals away; to be doubly sure, tie some personal article like a handkerchief to the meat.—
Maurice H. Decker,
Outdoor Life,
17 Sep. 2025
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For centuries, islanders lined fishing docks below the castle, waving handkerchiefs at ships setting sail for America.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
14 Sep. 2025
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