handkercher
English
Noun
handkercher (plural handkerchers)
- Obsolete form of handkerchief.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- When your head did but ake,
I knit my hand-kercher about your browes.