napery

Example Sentences

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Essex Clipper Dinner Train Plush restored 1920s Pullman dining cars graciously set with pristine napery and powered by a vintage diesel locomotive take visitors on a two-and-a-half-hour excursion through the Connecticut countryside.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2015

Faultless napery, preferably white—naked tabletops have no place in any restaurant aspiring to loveliness.

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 6, 2015

The wives, in the score's most delicious, feather-light music, plot their duping in a smart hotel dining room: stiff napery, chandeliers and synchronised tureens.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2012

Hey, I wasn't expecting fussy napery or anything, but still: I felt like I was using up the stock, and wasting trees to boot.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2010

Miss Maxwell, the superintendent of nurses, took the trousseau in hand and portioned out piles of napery and underwear to the eager hands of the nurses to embroider.

From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth