What is "serviette"

Usage examples of "serviette".

Pare says the wife of Pierre de Feure, an iron merchant, living at Chasteaudun, menstruated such quantities from the breasts each month that several serviettes were necessary to receive the discharge.

Without a word he gets up and, serviette in hand, crosses over among the tables, draws the cream-coloured curtains so that they lap well over one another, convinces himself by a glance over his shoulder that the ray from the setting sun is shut out and Frau Chauchat relieved, and with an air of perfect equanimity goes back to his place.

She opened the door wide, so that the room was lighter, and she saw him more clearly, with the muffler held up to his face just as she had seen him hold the serviette before.

They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked up their knives and forks.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

That one was equally vast, and in its middle was a table the size of the Florilegium's pista—a ring of tables, actually, linen-clothed and crowded with sterling silver samovars, crystal decanters, stacks of gold-inlaid porcelain tableware, snowy serviettes, silver flatware, and salvers and tureens and bowls displaying what appeared to be every finest sort of viand that ever came from a kitchen.