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- usually dries her hands on her handkerchief when there are no towels available
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“Handkerchief.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handkerchief. Accessed 27 January 2020.
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The first known use of handkerchief was in 1530
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