What is "placemat"

Usage examples of "placemat".

While she was gone I put the placemat on the table, and put a white dish on it, and then I put a yellow napkin next to it.

She opened her eyes, but stared at the table and played with the paper placemat, folding and unfolding the corner.

How could he now be sitting at our table so calmly, toying with cherries and coffee cups and rolling the edge of his straw placemat, and pressing this heft of information on us?

Having lost his appetite, Jake shoved his bowl off the placemat, then laced his hands together atop the table.

Once there, she turned on the radio which promptly informed her that traffic was being detoured in the vicinity of the BQE because of an overturned tractor trailer truck and she turned it off and picked up the hundred dollar bill, and then she came round to find the crumpled check on the floor and smooth it carefully against the refrigerator door before she put them both under the napkins and placemats in the drawer.

Edie showed up here early front door standing wide open, I always told her to keep the God damn doors locked, lying right here on the floor drawers dumped out napkins, placemats, spoons all over the place God damn woman out front there pushing a microphone in my face.

So I stopped at the display to see if they had any placemats that might be good, and I found some pale blue ones that were nice, and I got some white napkins.

And then some yellow placemats caught my eye, because they looked really bright and appealing, so I got those, too.

Susan was in the kitchen setting out placemats on the breakfast nook table.

A little bug sat in my ear and buzzed: Who cares about Ellen and her woven placemats and her hopes for the future?

But he had remembered when he was a child: His mother had cooked him a hearty breakfast, in the old kitchen with the linoleum that curled at the corners and the oak table with the placemats that looked like woven straw but were really plastic.

The round table in the kitchen was set for two, with Matisse-blue linen placemats and the sunshine yellow and blue plates.

The table was cleared and wiped with a damp cloth, and red-checkered paper placemats were laid down.

There were matching placemats and napkins, with accessories in a contrasting pumpkin shade.

Canning had set the table as if he were serving a full meal, everything properly arranged, every item squared off from the nearest other item: placemats, paper napkins, silverware, cups and saucers, a platter of rolls, a butter dish, butter knives, a cream pitcher, sugar bowl, and sugar spoon.