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

We came to a hotel where there was stiff napery, with creases in it, on a breakfast table.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)