table napkin
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him.
From Time Magazine Archive
He holds up a bloodied table napkin or a child's dress stained by chocolate ice cream and demonstrates how Axion helps clean them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ah! he knew how to use a table napkin!
From Nobody's Boy Sans Famille by Crewe-Jones, Florence
He could change his table napkin into a white rabbit, and she forgot all about the dolls' Thanksgiving dinner until it was dessert-time, and the nuts and raisins came in.
From Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Dickinson, Asa Don
"Yes, but she was the daughter of an Italian father who was born at Florence," said the Abbé Gévresin, who, hearing the bell ring for Nones, now folded up his table napkin.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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