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
There had been trouble enough in getting the sock on over the damp table napkin.
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
He illustrates his meaning with his table napkin and by putting together the tips of his forefingers, roguishly. ethel.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley
The cook, bent on obtaining his wish, presented him with a table napkin and begged him to use that instead of canvas.
From Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer by Keysor, Jennie Ellis
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