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napkinette en · NOUN

Etymology

From napkin + -ette.

Meanings

1. A small napkin. ▸ A small diaper.
   • Patent napkinettes have been discontinued in the hospital, as it was estimated that their cost was ₤300 yearly. 1915 May 29, “Post Graduate Week at the General Lying-In Hospital, York Road, S.E.”, in The British Journal of Nursing, volume 54, number 1417, page 473:
   • anyone peeking inside her small valise would have found only a folded woolen coat for herself, a dozen napkinettes in fine canton flannel for the infant, and a baby’s feeding bottle with three black rubber teats 1993, Carol Shields, chapter 2, in The Stone Diaries, London: Fourth Estate, published 1994, page 48:
2. A small napkin. ▸ A small serviette.
   • 1978, Sophy Burnham, “On Power” in The Landed Gentry, New York: Putnam, p. 289, so smug and proud in their Lacoste shirts, with their gin and tonics set on little napkinettes before them

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