Definition of Bandanna

1. Noun. Large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief.

Exact synonyms: Bandana
Generic synonyms: Handkerchief, Hankey, Hankie, Hanky

Definition of Bandanna

1. n. A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

Definition of Bandanna

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of bandana) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bandanna

1. a large, colored handkerchief [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandanna

bandage
bandage dress
bandage dresses
bandage sign
bandaged
bandagelike
bandager
bandagers
bandages
bandaging
bandaid
bandala
bandalas
bandana
bandanas
bandanna (current term)
bandannas
bandar
bandari
bandars
bandas
bandbox
bandbox resonance
bandboxes
bandboxy
bandcenter
bandeau
bandeaus
bandeaux
banded

Literary usage of Bandanna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"bandanna. A style of calico printing, in which white or brightly colored spots ate produced upon a red or dark ground. It seems to have been practised from ..."

2. "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Novel Entertainments for Every Day in the Year by Ellye Howell Glover (1907)
"A bandanna Sale A bandanna Sale was announced by a coterie of young women who were interested in supplying the winter coal to a fatherless family much in ..."

3. Applied Chemistry by Edward Andrew Parnell (1844)
"bandanna handkerchiefs, 164. Barwood, 102. Bases, 4. Basic alum, 113. Bat-wing burner, 45. Bergmann, researches of, in dyeing, 96. researches of, in dyeing, ..."

4. Biographical Sketches of Preeminent Americansby Frederick G. Harrison by Frederick G. Harrison (1893)
"... amid one of those whimsical demonstrations which characterize nominating conventions in general, the waving of thousands of red bandanna handkerchiefs, ..."

5. A Dictionary: English and Burmese by Adoniram Judson (1849)
"... to make steady, j bandanna, n. Bandbox, n. < j Bandit, я. Balloon, п. ... bandanna ..."

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