napkin• They can be neatly eaten with your hands-sometimes a napkin isn't even needed!• White tablecloths and black napkinsrolled and tucked with white paper napkins for a tuxedoappeal can only do so much.• Flora put her napkin on the table and left the room.• Her napkin was of puresilk with a neatly monogrammedcorner.• Ralph could only ogle, though, helpless with envy, as Grover baIled up his napkin.• I just took my napkin, filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot.• Luks would shout, drinking and sketching wildly on napkins, tablecloths, menus.• Thallium àlamode de Wimbledon, served in a little chinapot with a spray of basil and a clean table napkin.
Originnapkin
(1600-1700)nape“cloth”((1400-1500)), from Old French, from Latinmappa; → MAP1