Billy.
A pocket-handkerchief. “A blue billy” is a handkerchief with blue ground and white spots.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
A pocket-handkerchief. “A blue billy” is a handkerchief with blue ground and white spots.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.