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Definition of nose-wiper in English: nose-wipernoun dated, informal A handkerchief. Example sentencesExamples - Among the latter people, we have seen a large supply of paper nose-wipers.
- Instead of suits, you'll wear a spit-up cloth and a nose wiper, if you're fortunate.
- I say, chummy, seems as if a nose wiper has fallen overboard and she's stopped to pick it up.
- If you find a nose-wiper, 'specially if it happens to be a silk one, why, you know what then?
- Each of the other men in the council circle received one of those nose wipers, a knife, and a piece of tobacco to smoke.
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