Results for napery

Definitions of napery:

part of speech: noun

Linen, esp. for the table.

part of speech: noun

Made- up linen cloth in general; table- linen.

part of speech: noun

Table linen; any household linen.

Usage examples for napery:

• Next morning she put her second sister into another creel, and covered her with all the fine napery she could find in the house, and put an armful of grass on the top of it, and at her bidding the Giant, who was really getting very fond of her, carried it also home to her mother. "The Scottish Fairy Book", Elizabeth W. Grierson

• The charm to the eye of the table with its exquisite napery and china and glass and silver and flowers. "The Rough Road", William John Locke

• The hostess may prefer the modern napery so exquisitely embroidered in gold thread, which affords an opportunity to show the family coat of arms, or the heraldic animals- the lion and the two- headed eagle and the griffin- intertwined in graceful shapes around the whole edge of the table and on the napkins. "Manners and Social Usages", Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

• It was rather a frugal repast to which he sat down a few moments later, but the napery was snowy white, and the service of elegant silver, solid and old. "The Man from Jericho", Edwin Carlile Litsey