Meaning of fogle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pocket handkerchief.
   obsolete
2. A surname.

Examples

“1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford, 2009, Gutenberg eBook #7735, One, gentlemen, I myself expelled from our corps for ungentlemanlike practices; he picked pockets of fogles, (handkerchiefs)--it was a vulgar employment.”

“[…]and we've to pick⟳ up the stakes and cords at Uncle Ben's, to get⟳ the bird's-eye fogles in St. Martin's-lane,[…].”

“Doodles, therefore, wore a cut-away coat, a colored shirt with a fogle round his neck, old brown trousers that fitted very tightly round his legs, and was careful to take⟳ no gloves with him.”

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