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Serviette   Listen
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Serviette  n.  A table napkin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Serviette" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Delmonico's restaurants, dined at the invitation of our banker at "Pinards," where the roses were lovely, the centre bouquet measuring two feet across, and each lady having different-coloured bunches on her serviette; a play at Walleck's, theatre both pretty and well-ventilated, and a most splendid exit, the stalls on the same level as the street—the whole place seemed to empty itself in about five minutes; and a day's expedition to Statten Island, from which we had ...
— A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba • Mrs. Cecil Hall

... pushed into the hall, I followed her, and almost at the same moment a still larger and perhaps grosser woman than my friend, with the same features and complexion, came out of a room to the left with, a serviette in her hand. ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... the room with pride when Dorothea walked in. Dorothea in the frock she had worn for five mornings during the week, and which was still clean and fresh; with her wonderful hair in a shining mass down her back, and a serviette in her hand (an extempore duster). It always took her the better part of Saturday to even find her own niche ...
— An Australian Lassie • Lilian Turner

... folded her serviette and walked to the window, and stood looking out over the yellow stretch of ...
— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace

... a great change after the barrack-room. The pretty china cups seemed wonderfully small and fragile compared with the familiar basin; and once Jack found himself absent-mindedly stuffing his serviette into his sleeve, under the impression ...
— Soldiers of the Queen • Harold Avery

... of sitting down, went up to the table and stood against it, with his finger-tips upon the cloth. They were keeping breakfast a tremendous time. He took up his rolled serviette looked closely and scrutinisingly at the ring, then put his hand under the fold of the napkin and examined the texture, and put the thing down again. Then he had a vague impulse to finger his hollow wisdom ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells

... monosyllables. Julie, nervous and depressed, stole away before dessert, and Mrs. Da Souza soon followed her, very massive, and frowning with an air of offended dignity. Da Souza, who opened the door for them, returned to his seat, moodily flicking the crumbs from his trousers with his serviette. ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... into the hall, just as his father had come out from the dining-room, serviette in hand, to learn the cause of ...
— The Wharf by the Docks - A Novel • Florence Warden

... sergxento. Series serio. Serious serioza. Seriousness seriozeco. Sermon prediko. Serpent serpento. Serum serumo. Servant servisto—ino. Serve servi. Serve for tauxgi. Service servo. Service, table mangxilaro. Service, Divine Diservo. Serviceable servema. Serviette busxtuko. Servile sklava. Servility sklavemo. Servitude sklaveco. Session kunsido. Set apart apartigi. Set free liberigi. Set out foriri. Set (a bone, etc.) enartikigi. Set fire to ekbruligi. Set in order ordigi. Set (of ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... Napkin From Serviette. Gigot (of mutton) ... " Gigot. Reeforts Radishes " Raiforts. Grosserts Gooseberries " Groseilles. Gardyveen Case for holding wine " Garde-vin. Jupe Part of a woman's dress " Jupe. Bonnaille A parting glass with a " Bon aller. friend going on a journey ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay



Words linked to "Serviette" :   bib, napkin, table napkin



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