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名詞

fogle (複数形 fogles)

1. (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
   • 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.

   • 1853, Lord William Lennox, Ernest Atherley, Or Scenes at Home and Abroad, in The Sporting Review, Volume 30, page 202,

     […] 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, […] .

   • c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings‎^[1]:

     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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