"tablenapkin" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tablenapkins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tablenapkin (plural tablenapkins)
  1. (rare) Alternative form of table napkin. Tags: alt-of, alternative, rare Alternative form of: table napkin
    Sense id: en-tablenapkin-en-noun-5aBgSNnC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "This was a linen square for practical use as a handkerchief or tablenapkin, chiefly by common folk and children."
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          "ref": "1931, Elizabeth, Father, Doran & Company,Inc., page 276",
          "text": "'That’s the way to do it!’ he exclaimed, crumpling up the paper object which some of the visitors called a serviette, and some a tablenapkin, the ones who called it a tablenapkin being much shocked at the ones who called it a serviette, and the ones who called it a serviette not even being aware that they thereby placed themselves irrevocably beyond the pale."
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          "ref": "1975, Harper, Barbara, Eight daughters, three sons, Reed, page 102",
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