English

Adjective

pocket-handkerchief ‎(comparative more pocket-handkerchief, superlative most pocket-handkerchief)

1. small, or of restricted size.

   January 19 2002, Tim Wapshott, The Guardian: I lost my heart in Nohant-en-Graçay, France

   • When I first went there more than 30 years ago it had patchworks of pocket-handkerchief fields.

   1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography. p.74

   • The pocket-handkerchief garden had trees of cypress, olive, lemon and orange,she emphasized.