Obs. [Name of a town in Spain, with manufacture of silk.] A handkerchief or neckerchief of soft twilled silk.
1795. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Dinah, Wks. 1812, IV. 187. Now on this handkerchief, so starch and white, Was pinn’d a Barcelona, black and tight.
c. 1816. Mrs. Sherwood, Stories Ch. Catech., xiv. 117. She pulled out a Barcelona handkerchief.
1833. Mrs. S. C. Hall, in The Amulet, 224. I saw Tom, as grand as Cromwell, with his hands in his pockets, and a silk Barcelona round his neck, like any gentleman.
