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napery|ˈneɪpərɪ|
Forms: 4–6 naprye, 5–6 -ry, 6–7 -rie, (5 nappre, 6 napre, 6–7 Sc. naiprie); 4–7 naperie, (7 napp-, Sc. naipp-), 5–7 -rye, (6 naparie, 7 -ry), 5– napery.
[a. obs. F. naperie (napperie, 1400 in Godef.), f. nape (nappe) nape n.2 + -ery.]
1. Linen used for various household purposes, esp. table linen. Now rare exc. Sc.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 434 Dizschis & coupis of siluer & oþer vessel, & costly naprye. 1418E.E. Wills (1882) 32 All my beddynge & naperie. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 238 The surnape ye shulle make..with a clothe vndir a dowble of riȝt feire napry. 1530Palsgr. 457/1 Gyve me leave to bleche my naperye in your garden. 1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 176 His Table clothes, napkins, and towels, were made of Cotten wooll, verie white and newe, for he was never served but once with that naperie. 1656Heylin Surv. France 15 The napperie of the Table was..so foul and dirty, that I durst not conceive it had been washed above once. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 382 Some weaving napery for the warehouses at Dunfermline. 1822Galt Provost xxxviii, All the best of her sheets and napery. 1870Rock Text. Fabr. Introd. 75 Venetian linens, for fine towelling and napery in general.
attrib. and Comb.1532G. Hervet tr. Xenophon's Househ. (1768) 38 Shetes, towels, and all naprye ware by them selfes. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 6 But this's not all Ile doe: Bacchus shall knowe His naprie-drawers shall not end it so. 1631― Whimzies, Ruffian 133 A kicke, I meane, from some surly Naprie groome, which serves in full discharge of his Commons. 1865Caledon. Merc. 5 Sept., The officers then seized..two napery presses, a chest of drawers.
†b. Personal linen. Obs.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. A viij, [The] goodly show Of thyne apparraile and thy naperie. 1602Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 41 Prithee put me into wholesome naperie.
2.
†a. The charge or custody of the royal linen; the office of naperer. Obs.
a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 56 The steward takethe..for his napery at the iiii principall festes of the yere..in prises of lynyn clothe. 1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II (Chaucer Soc.) 27 A lawendere of the Naperie, who shal wash all manner of linnen cloth, appertaining to the office of the Naperie. 1628Coke On Litt. 107 b, To perform the office of the napery at his coronation.
b. A store-room for linen.
1819Hallam Mid. Ages ii. ix. III. 427 note, The house consisted of a hall, parlour,..a napery, or linen room [etc.].
†3. The making up or manufacture of personal or household linen. Obs. rare.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Clean Linen Wks. ii. 169/1 What were the function of the Linnen Draperye Or Sempsters admirable skill in Naperye? 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. vi. §4 Kings Merchants..brought in linen-yarn.., Solomon so setting up Napery, and the manufacture of weaving.
4. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 148/1 Napery—the working of Linnen in Painting according to the Foldings thereof. |