tablenapkin

== English == === Noun === tablenapkin (plural tablenapkins) (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.