NAPERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does napery mean? 

• NAPERY (noun)
  The noun NAPERY has 1 sense:

1. linens for the dining table

  Familiarity information: NAPERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAPERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Linens for the dining table

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

napery; table linen

Hypernyms ("napery" is a kind of...):

linen (white goods or clothing made with linen cloth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "napery"):

damask (a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern)

napkin; serviette; table napkin (a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing)

place mat (a mat serving as table linen for an individual place setting)

tablecloth (a covering spread over a dining table)

tray cloth (table linen consisting of a small cloth for a tray)

 Context examples 

A white mule with red trappings, led by a varlet, carried Sir Nigel's own napery and table comforts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A closet was filled with wine; the plate was of silver, the napery elegant; a good picture hung upon the walls, a gift (as Utterson supposed) from Henry Jekyll, who was much of a connoisseur; and the carpets were of many plies and agreeable in colour.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She led the way into a cosy room—the same which we had caught a glimpse of when last we came—and there, in the middle, was a table with white napery, and shining glass, and gleaming china, and red-cheeked apples piled upon a centre-dish, and a great plateful of smoking muffins which the cross-faced maid had just carried in.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

See to the noble armor set forth, and the costly taffeta—and oh, Ford, see to where the scrivener sits with the pigments and the ink-horns, and the rolls of sheepskin as white as the Beaulieu napery!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They took with them the sumpter mules, which carried in panniers the wardrobe and table furniture of Sir Nigel; for the knight, though neither fop nor epicure, was very dainty in small matters, and loved, however bare the board or hard the life, that his napery should still be white and his spoon of silver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)