or Birds-eye fogle, Birds-eye wipe, subs. (common).A handkerchief of any colour spotted with eye-like markings: see BILLY.
1665. PEPYS, Diary, May 14. To church, it being Whit-Sunday; my wife very fine in a new yellow BIRDS-EYE hood, as the fashion is now.
1801. T. HUGHES, Tom Brown at Oxford, xviii. He wore a blue BIRDS-EYE handkerchief round his neck.
1873. GREENWOOD, In Strange Company, 212. Were they lurking at this secluded spot until what they thought was a good time to sheer off with the swag? Was that the swag tied up in the blue BIRDS-EYE?
1883. Daily Telegraph, August 7, p. 6, col. 2. His neckerchief was of the same hue [silver grey], with a light crimson BIRDS-EYE.
1901. People, April 13, 1. The tie is rather a pretty blue BIRDS EYE pattern.