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
Binks, to his intense disgust, had to submit to the indignity of a table napkin tied round his neck, and all the occupants of the hotel thought them mad.
From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
She used her knife and fork, table napkin, and even toothpick, as if she had been accustomed to them all her life, which, of course, in her native forest was far from being the case.
From The Animal Story Book by Various
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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