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serviette|sɜːvɪˈɛt|
Forms: α. Sc. 5–7 serviot, 6 serviat; β. Sc. 6–7 servit, 8 servite, 6, 9 servet; γ. 6–7 Sc. serviet, 9 serviette.
[a. F. serviette a towel, table-napkin, of obscure formation, connected with servir serve v.1
The older use of the word was exclusively Sc. In the 19th c. it was re-introduced with the French spelling (at first only as a foreign term). It may now be regarded as naturalized, but latterly has come to be considered vulgar.]
A table-napkin; also, † a slip-cloth.
α1489Acta Dom. Concil. (1839) 131/2, xij cuschingis..and xij seruiotis of dornewik. 1501Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 28 Item, for serviotis to the same [King's burd] vij elne lang and iij quartaris braid. 1560Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 72 Ane hand towall, ane serviat [etc.]. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 235 The air sall have..twelf servettis and ane buird-claith of dornique. 1619Reg. Privy Council Scot. XII. 761 Tua dusane of dornik serviottis.
β1588Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 289 [Twenty-four] linteolum lie seruittis [at 18s. the dozen]. 1601in T. Pont's Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Club) 179 Ten small seruittis, twentie round seruittis. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Cl.) I. 108 The generall himselfe..and souldiers, sat doun..and of their own provision, with ane servitt on their knee, took their breakfast. 1719in W. Macgill Old Ross-sh. (1909) 131 Table cloths and servites of damask and dornick and hagabag servites, sheets, &c. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Lady G. Baillie xxxi, Her hands..Unfolding spread the servet white.
γ1513Douglas æneis i. xi. 17 With soft serviettis to mak thair handis clene. 1587–8in Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1882) IV. 515 Thai sall nocht..be sene in the streits with thair aiprunes and seruiets. 1612in A. M'Kay Kilmarnock 308 Saxteine seruietis of damais. 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 114 A dirty coarse canvas serviette. 1864Sala Quite alone I. viii. 133 At table d'hôte time he..carried a serviette in lieu of a feather broom under his arm. 1889Roy Tellet Pr. Maskiloff 167 Mordaunt and Scarnell..always spoke of napkins as serviettes. 1906H. Bland Lett. Daughter 53, I think..she was the sort who would call a table napkin a serviette. |