Also 8 bandanno. [cf. Hindustani bāndhnū ‘a mode of dyeing in which the cloth is tied in different places, to prevent the parts from receiving the dye’ (Shakspear Dict.); prob. adopted first in Pg.] A richly colored silk handkerchief, with spots left white or yellow by the process described above. The name is now applied to cotton handkerchiefs also, and the pattern is produced by chemical agency.
1752. in J. Long, Bengal (1870), 31. Plain taffaties, ordinary bandannoes, and chappas.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. 39. Waving his yellow bandanna.
1875. Miss Bird, Hawaii, 134. Many had tied bandanas in a graceful knot over the left shoulder.
attrib. 1824. Ann. Reg., 140/2. Bandana handkerchiefs.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 285. Beautiful bandana webs.
