Assertion: handkerchief | /r/HasProperty | complex accessory
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text: As these two examples reveal, the handkerchief in early modern Europe was a complex accessory and one with multiple uses: it could be a receptacle for bodily fluids and filth from mucus to tears to blood to sweat, as Della Casa indicates; it could be an essential agent of compassion and healing as the legend of Veronica wiping the blood from Jesus’ face illustrates.
text: As I have been suggesting, the handkerchief was a complex accessory, moving between public and private, virtue and potential vice.