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ˈserviter Sc. rare.
Forms: 6 servatour, servitor, 9 serviter.
[app. alteration of servet serviette, perh. by association with L. servātor preserver.]
A table napkin.
1530in A. Laing Lindores Abb. (1876) 489 Item xxxij hayll seruatours for my lords bourd. 1530J. Symsoun Inv. in Liber S. Marie de Lundoris (Abbotsf. Club) 32, vij seruitors of dornyth werk. 1858–61Ramsay Remin. vi. (1870) 246 Serviter, Napkin. |