napkinette
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]napkinette (plural napkinettes)
- A small napkin.
- A small diaper. [From early 20th c.]
- 1915, “Post Graduate Week at the General Lying-In Hospital, York Road, S.E.” in The British Journal of Nursing, Volume 54, No. 1417, 29 May, 1915, p. 473,[1]
- Patent napkinettes have been discontinued in the hospital, as it was estimated that their cost was ₤300 yearly.
- 1993, Carol Shields, chapter 2, in The Stone Diaries, London: Fourth Estate, published 1994, page 48:
- anyone peeking inside her small valise would have found only a folded woolen coat for herself, a dozen napkinettes in fine canton flannel for the infant, and a baby’s feeding bottle with three black rubber teats
- 1915, “Post Graduate Week at the General Lying-In Hospital, York Road, S.E.” in The British Journal of Nursing, Volume 54, No. 1417, 29 May, 1915, p. 473,[1]
- A small serviette.
- 1978, Sophy Burnham, “On Power” in The Landed Gentry, New York: Putnam, p. 289,[2]
- so smug and proud in their Lacoste shirts, with their gin and tonics set on little napkinettes before them
- 1978, Sophy Burnham, “On Power” in The Landed Gentry, New York: Putnam, p. 289,[2]
- A small diaper. [From early 20th c.]