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Definition of Tea napkin
1. Noun. A small napkin used when tea is served.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Napkin
Literary usage of Tea napkin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jennie June's American Cookery Book: Containing Upwards of Twelve Hundred by Jane Cunningham Croly (1866)
"A small waiter, covered with a clean tea-napkin; a cup of nice warm tea, two
slices of thin, lightly-browned toast, a tiny pat of sweet butter, ..."
2. Good Manners by Eliza M ] [Lavin (1889)
"... sometimes called a tea-napkin, may be placed under the finger-bowl in lieu of
the fancy one. Some elegant hostesses, whose housekeeping still retains ..."
3. Dorcas Magazine. (1883)
"It is gotten up in very attractive form, the first page of the cover being printed
to represent a tea napkin, with one corner folded back, upon which is ..."
4. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... at discovering among its treasures a tea-napkin marked gorgeously with the Hon.
's family crest, which had maliciously crept into its depths in order to ..."
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