Napkin
A napkin, or face towel (also in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa: serviette) is a rectangle of cloth used at the table for wiping the mouth and fingers while eating. It is usually small and folded, sometimes in intricate designs and shapes. The word comes from Middle English, borrowing the French nappe—a cloth covering for a table—and adding -kin, the diminutive suffix.
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Famous quotes containing the word napkin:
“Again brutish necessity wipes its hands
Upon the napkin of a dirty cause,”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain-head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays;”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)