Sideboard supply

Usage examples of napery.

Hilliard considered him through her lorgnon, but the man was busy with the napery and escaped punishment.

And the napery, the glassware and the flowers also meritoriously performed the spectacular duties required of them.

There was such a buying of wool to make blankets, with a booming of the meikle wheel to spin the same, and such birring of the little wheel for sheets and napery, that the manse was for many a day like an organ kist.

Indeed for quiet family parties it was from among them only that Mme de Guermantes might select her guests, and in the dinners for twelve, gathered around the dazzling napery and plate, they were like the golden statues of the Apostles in the Sainte- Chapelle, symbolic, consecrative pillars before the Holy Table.

Inconspicuously dropping his napkin, he had a good look under the tablecloth as he retrieved the napery.