table napkin
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
As soon as you are seated at table, remove your gloves, place your table napkin across your knees, and remove the roll which you find probably within it to the left side of your plate.
From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by Routledge, George
He handed Lem a towel which in dimensions resembled a large table napkin, and a piece of yellow soap which in size looked like a chewing-gum wafer.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
When I got to India and to polite society, and began wiping my mouth with a table napkin, I discovered that on the first few occasions the napkin used to come away in my pocket.
From To Lhassa at Last by Millington, Powell
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