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Definition of napery in English: naperynoun ˈneɪp(ə)riˈneɪpəri mass nounHousehold linen, especially tablecloths and napkins. Example sentencesExamples - It doesn't quite go either with the napery or your best silver cutlery.
- The furniture, napery, cutlery and glassware are also all of a very high standard and you know as soon as you are seated that this restaurant is promising something special.
- I learned that in France, the oyster has retained its place as a pleasure of the poor, rather than a delicacy to be savoured amid starched napery.
- The napery is of high quality and the cutlery is bespoke stainless steel.
- They hadn't set the table with a linen cupboard of napery and a canteen of silver.
- The napery is heavy linen, and the cutlery handcrafted.
- I should also mention that all meals came with heavy starched napery and good quality cutlery.
- The chairs don't make me squirm, the napery and drapery are the only aspects that sparkle or dazzle and the lighting obscures the scars of my years of debauchery.
- The first clue is the decor: salmon pink walls, beautifully laundered pink napery, enough pink-patterned curtain to wrap a battleship.
- The tables were covered with heavy linen tablecloths, and the napery and cutlery were of reasonable quality.
Origin Middle English: from Old French naperie, from nape 'tablecloth'. Rhymes apery, drapery, japery, papery, vapoury (US vapory) Definition of napery in US English: naperynounˈnāpərēˈneɪpəri Household linen, especially tablecloths and napkins. Example sentencesExamples - The napery is heavy linen, and the cutlery handcrafted.
- The chairs don't make me squirm, the napery and drapery are the only aspects that sparkle or dazzle and the lighting obscures the scars of my years of debauchery.
- The furniture, napery, cutlery and glassware are also all of a very high standard and you know as soon as you are seated that this restaurant is promising something special.
- They hadn't set the table with a linen cupboard of napery and a canteen of silver.
- I should also mention that all meals came with heavy starched napery and good quality cutlery.
- The napery is of high quality and the cutlery is bespoke stainless steel.
- I learned that in France, the oyster has retained its place as a pleasure of the poor, rather than a delicacy to be savoured amid starched napery.
- It doesn't quite go either with the napery or your best silver cutlery.
- The first clue is the decor: salmon pink walls, beautifully laundered pink napery, enough pink-patterned curtain to wrap a battleship.
- The tables were covered with heavy linen tablecloths, and the napery and cutlery were of reasonable quality.
Origin Middle English: from Old French naperie, from nape ‘tablecloth’. |