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tablenapkin (plural tablenapkins)

1. (rare) Alternative form of table napkin.
   • 1972, Cunnington, C. Willett, Handbook of English costume in the seventeenth century, Plays, inc, page 77

     This was a linen square for practical use as a handkerchief or tablenapkin, chiefly by common folk and children.

   • 1931, Elizabeth, Father, Doran & Company,Inc., page 276

     'That’s the way to do it!’ he exclaimed, crumpling up the paper object which some of the visitors called a serviette, and some a tablenapkin, the ones who called it a tablenapkin being much shocked at the ones who called it a serviette, and the ones who called it a serviette not even being aware that they thereby placed themselves irrevocably beyond the pale.

   • 1975, Harper, Barbara, Eight daughters, three sons, Reed, page 102

     Mrs P. came out to the verandah waving her tablenapkin and saying, ‘‘Naughty girl, you are a quarter of an hour late,’’ then she ushered me to the diningroom.