Pocket-handkerchief

Full definition of pocket-handkerchief

Adjective

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.
2. 1996, Faubion Bowers, Scriabin, a Biography. p.74
• The pocket-handkerchief garden had trees of cypress, olive, lemon and orange,she emphasized.