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
He gave the alpenstock a rub with the table napkin before placing it and his old mountaineering companion against the bag.
From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville
Aunt Nell came back rather slowly into the dining-room, folded up Uncle Tom's table napkin, pushed back Bobby's chair and then said tersely, "Lizzie has gone."
From Judy of York Hill by Bennett, Ethel Hume
At eight o'clock Perrine dined alone in the general dining room, a table napkin on her lap.
From Nobody's Girl (En Famille) by Crewe-Jones, Florence
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