Crossword-Solution: MOUCHOIR 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

When there were gentlefolks visiting at the big house, the countess would call me, 'Gachette [Agafya], femme de chambre, apportez-moi un mouchoir!' Then I would say, 'Toute suite, Madame la Comtesse!' And every one would be staring at me, and couldn't take their eyes off.

Wide-eyed, heavy-lipped, with the high cheek-bones of an Indian and uncut black hair bound with the knotted red MOUCHOIR, he looked more than ever like a pirate and a cutthroat to David.

Instead of a Madras or painted turban-kerchief, she binds a plain _mouchoir_ neatly and closely about her head; and if her hair be long, it is combed back and gathered into a loop behind.

Then, with a second mouchoir of coarser quality she makes a pad, or, as she calls it, _tòche_, by winding the kerchief round her fingers as you would coil up a piece of string;--and the soft mass, flattened with a patting of the hand, is placed upon her head, over the coiffure.

For the man the costume consists of a gray shirt of Iuugh material, blue canvas pantaloons, a large mouchoir fatas to tie around his waist, and a _chapeau Bacoué_,--an enormous hat of Martinique palm-straw.