Papery vs Napery - What's the difference?
papery | napery |
Household linen, especially table linen.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 106:
As an adjective papery
is being like paper.As a noun napery is
household linen, especially table linen.napery
English
Noun
- Banter and low laughter swayer about the huge tent, swayed among the shadows thrown by the brilliant candelabra pendant on their inverted stems above the white napery of the central table.