4 January 2017

napery

[ney-puh-ree]

noun

1. table linen, as tablecloths or napkins.
2. any linen for household use.

Origin of napery

Middle English

1350-1400; Middle English naprye < Middle French, equivalent to nape, variant of nappe tablecloth (see napkin ) + -erie -ery

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Examples from the Web for napery

Historical Examples

The display of napery and table linen was most ample; and why not?
Those Times And These
Irvin S. Cobb

Its crockery and atmosphere were thick; its soup and napery thin.
The Four Million
O. Henry

They would have all the winter to prepare the napery and crockery and consult about carpets and furniture.
A Singer from the Sea
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Anagram

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Today’s quote

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

– T. S. Eliot

On this day

4 January – the eleventh day of the 12 days of Christmas (Western Christianity).

4 January 1903 – Thomas Edison electrocutes an elephant to prove the dangers of ‘alternating current’ electricity. He had previously electrocuted stray cats and dogs and even horses and cows. He snidely referred to it as ‘getting Westinghoused’. Topsy, the elephant, had squashed 4 trainers at the Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island, so the zoo had decided to hang her, before someone suggested she ‘ride the lightning’. More on this at http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayintech_0104

4 January 1965 – death of Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot), poet, playwright, publisher, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, described as ‘arguably the most important English language poet of the 20th century’. Wrote ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‘, ‘The Waste Land‘, ‘Ash Wednesday‘, ‘The Hollow Men‘. Born 26 September 1888.