(n.) A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.
(n.) A handkerchief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
(2) The case of a young suckling is reported in whom widespread candidosis of the napkin area was followed by the clinical signs of both erythema multiforme and dermatitis seborrhoides infantum.
(3) I imagine that those who think protesting during the National Anthem is un-American think that the Boston Tea Party was a literal tea party with tiny cakes and monogrammed napkins.
(4) The effect of tampon usage on the vaginal microflora of 35 healthy women was determined following their random allocation to either tampon or napkin use for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(5) Eczema and wheezing occurred to a similar extent in the two groups during the first year of life, although napkin rash, diarrhoea, and oral thrush were commoner in the intervention group, especially during the first three months.
(6) The so-called "napkin psoriasis" is the usual early expression of the disease in infants.
(7) The efficiency of napkin and protection shield is limited.
(8) As we puff our napkins I ask him what effect she had on other diners when she ate here.
(9) She reaches for a green paper napkin on the table in front of us and I realise that she is crying.
(10) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
(11) Dusting powders are also used on contraceptive diaphragms, sanitary napkins and in toiletries.
(12) Camilla, meanwhile, went for a spiky number that looked a little like a napkin folded into a swan.
(13) Overall, 49% of cases and 39% of controls reported exposure to talc, via direct application to the perineum or to undergarments, sanitary napkins, or diaphragms, which yielded a 1.5 odds ratio (OR) for ovarian cancer (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0-2.1).
(14) That curve was famously scribbled by Laffer on a napkin over cocktails with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974, and helped underpin Reagan’s so-called trickle-down economics – as well as launching Laffer’s career as one of the most influential economists in Republican circles.
(15) An open, non-comparative, multi-centre study was carried out in general practice to assess the effectiveness, acceptability and tolerability of a 1% clotrimazole plus 1% hydrocortisone cream in the treatment of 112 infants with napkin dermatitis.
(16) Twenty-five infants and children with Candida infections in the perianal, genital and inguinal areas and on the skin normally covered by the napkin or diaper, confirmed by culture tests and microscopy, were treated with a new combined foam preparation containing the active substances nystatin, chlorhexidine and prednisolone.
(17) Contented, I sat for quite a while mapping my talk on paper napkins, and then strolled the small park with the city’s oldest water tower rising from its centre.
(18) Candida albicans has been recovered from the skin of 33 infants out of 53 patients affected with all types of napkin eruption (62 p. 100) and from faecal specimens of 43 patients (81 p. 100).
(19) Photograph: Hayes Davidson The scheme replaces a project known as the Pinnacle , a tower designed by American firm KPF in the form of a rolled-up napkin, which would have spiralled up to a slender point in the City’s planned “cluster”.
(20) Three groups of two subjects each were instructed in three feeding skills: chewing with mouth closed, appropriate utensil use, and appropriate napkin use.
Tablecloth
Definition:
(n.) A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Going through the airing cupboard recently, I came across the handmade duvet covers I used, stitched together by my mother from old sheets, tablecloths, and bits of lace.
(2) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(3) A tweet from the writer Polly Samson last night reported that Freud's regular table in The Wolseley restaurant was laid with a black tablecloth and a single candle in his honour.
(4) Photograph: Alamy The 15-minute flight from Ponta Delgaa to Santa Maria reveals the island as a tablecloth-sized tumble of five farming parishes: there are twice as many cows as people in the Azores, a fact borne out on Santa Maria, which has 10,000 cows and 5,500 people.
(5) He recalled how in his first attempt to woo his wife he asked her to dinner, and inadvertently put a duvet on the table rather than a tablecloth.
(6) Even the term technocrat is extraordinary: it pretends to divorce economics from politics, when all that happens is that vulgar material interests are disguised under a luxurious tablecloth.
(7) The overwhelmingly positive replies have reassured her, and she collects a few from the pile of new post and spreads them out over the worn red-checked tablecloth.
(8) It's just when I pour tea I do it all over the tablecloth.
(9) With high ceilings, white-washed walls, white tablecloths and old-school bow-tied waiters, the place has an air of Rio’s cool glamorous past about it.
(10) No one wants to sit down for a six-course, white-tablecloth meal at 1.30am and pay attention to their table manners.
(11) In the evenings, the dining room upstairs opens its doors and the starched tablecloths and napkins come out for those after a more formal dinner.
(12) Live with it" – to the warning that they don't pour your wine or use tablecloths, Y Polyn (mains from £10), this is a no-nonsense, all-about-the-food restaurant.
(13) Going in the other direction, this gridded tablecloth has a rather more bathetic and English character.
(14) The elegant dining room with its hatstands and mirrored walls, the cramped tables where a stranger is likely to be sharing a table with you once it starts to fill up and the waiters' memory skills and tradition of annotating your order on the paper tablecloth, then jotting down the additionusing it to work outadd up your bill.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination on the green baize tablecloth in Grosvenor Square.
(16) A disco ball spins above her head casting tiny lights on tablecloths your nan would dismiss as a being a bit fussy.
(17) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(18) The picturesque courtyard is a nice place to sit with a glass of wine, although the mismatched crockery and loud tablecloths may seem kitsch.
(19) Nuclear experts later found huge amounts of contamination on a small area of the green baize tablecloth.
(20) By the end of the season they are eating hamburgers alone from a white tablecloth with candelabra, while everyone calls them ‘sir’.