or Bird’s-eye fogle, Bird’s-eye wipe, subs. (common).—A handkerchief of any colour spotted with eye-like markings: see BILLY.

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  1665.  PEPYS, Diary, May 14. To church, it being Whit-Sunday; my wife very fine in a new yellow BIRD’S-EYE hood, as the fashion is now.

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  1801.  T. HUGHES, Tom Brown at Oxford, xviii. He wore a blue BIRD’S-EYE handkerchief round his neck.

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  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’?

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  1883.  Daily Telegraph, August 7, p. 6, col. 2. His neckerchief was of the same hue [silver grey], with a light crimson BIRD’S-EYE.

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  1901.  People, April 13, 1. The tie is rather a pretty blue BIRD’S EYE pattern.

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