napery

Example Sentences

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

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 6, 2015

Mike Price, the chef, and his partner, Joe Campanaro, who also own Market Table, have opted for refinement, accepting reservations and using cloth napery.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2014

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

I shall never know whether or not there would have been room on the corner of that gravy and egg broidered napery for my stupendous total.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)