napery

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Essex Clipper Dinner Train Plush restored 1920s Pullman dining cars graciously set with pristine napery and powered by a vintage diesel locomotive take visitors on a two-and-a-half-hour excursion through the Connecticut countryside.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2015

Faultless napery, preferably white—naked tabletops have no place in any restaurant aspiring to loveliness.

From Architectural Digest • Apr. 6, 2015

The wives, in the score's most delicious, feather-light music, plot their duping in a smart hotel dining room: stiff napery, chandeliers and synchronised tureens.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2012

Hey, I wasn't expecting fussy napery or anything, but still: I felt like I was using up the stock, and wasting trees to boot.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2010

There were many bedrooms with great four-posted, canopied beds and old-fashioned carved furniture of mahogany and curly-maple, and in one he found a great cedar-lined chest filled with bed-linen and napery.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie