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What did it mean when a Victorian woman gave a man her handkerchief?
I think perhaps you are thinking of "dropping her hanky" as she walked by. She would drop it, the man would pick it up, introduce himself and give it back to her. Thereby she got the attention of the man.
Ladies hankies were scented with perfume, if she gave one to a man, it would be a remembrance of her "scent", but I don't remember reading that this happening. Dropping a hanky continued at least into the 1950s.
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