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serviettes

serviettes is the plural of serviette.

Meaning of serviette

Noun

serviette (plural serviettes)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK) A table napkin, now especially a paper one.
    • She should unfold her serviette and place it on her lap. It is immaterial whether she places the bread on the right or left-hand side of the cover when taking it from the serviette.
    • A gentleman should do the same with his serviette and bread, placing the one across his knees, and the other at his right or left hand.1887, “A Member of the Aristocracy”, Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or Solecisms to Be Avoided, 1999 facsimile edition, Angus&Robertson, page 116
    Synonyms:
    napkin, table napkin
  2. (obsolete) A lazy Susan.

Questions about serviettes

What is serviettes the plural of?
Serviettes is the plural of serviette.

Words near serviettes in the dictionary

  1. servient premises
  2. servient tenement
  3. servient tenements
  4. serviential
  5. serviette
  6. serviettes
  7. servil
  8. servile
  9. servile arts
  10. servilely
  11. servileness

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