napery

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Servers, dressed of their own choosing but almost uniformly in black, moved swiftly, surely, with one hand held behind their backs; fresh cutlery materialized resting atop snowy napery on a little silver tray.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2023

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

He had just time to notice the beautiful appointments of the table, the snowy napery, the rare old silver, the exquisite glass, when Salmoros entered.

From The Intriguers by Le Queux, William