facciolette

Updated: July 17, 2026

Here again we have indication of Italy's refining influence, a new invention which came rapidly into vogue, and unlike most of them, came to stay the facciolette. What though the roystering pseudo-gallant had no shirt to which he might attach a fine collar, he must have his "facilet," as the chronicler spells it in short, a handkerchief.

B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker - From a Terrace in Prague