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(UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A table napkin, now especially a paper one. [From late 15thC.]
French from Old French serviete perhaps from servir to serve serve
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From French serviette.
From Wiktionary
I received a present of a silver serviette ring with crest & latin inscription.
Vesuvius sat back in his chair and covered his lap with the white serviette, licking his lips with anticipation.
A commemorative serviette produced as a ' Souvenir in Affectionate Remembrance of the miners who lost their lives in the Bentley Pit disaster '.
Skill at folding a white serviette had him batman to an officer; that and deftness with the bayonet.
A commemorative serviette produced as a ' Souvenir in Affectionate Remembrance of the miners who lost their lives in the Bentley Pit disaster ' .
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