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napery

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Searchable Lemmata: naperie (AF), naperie (ME), napery (OScots), napery (MdE).
Alternate Forms: naparie, napere, naperie, napparie, napri, naprie.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Furnishing; linen for household purposes; sheets, tablecloths, etc; also the place where such things were kept.(ante 1350 still in current use)
1. Item viij peces de draps de naperé (l. de diapere) apurtinant a le sale(cf. diaper). [AND Goldsmiths (208) 1334/1370]
2. Wyth a cloth keuere þe hey3he table ... And þe secunde also keuere Wyþ whyt naperie [F blaunche nape] 3yf 3e haue [MED Femina ((Trin-C B.14.40) 75) circa 1400]
3. Whan þei han eten, þei wypen hire hondes vpon hire skirtes, for þei vse non naperye ne towaylles but 3if it be before grete lordes(dating uncertain; work: c1400) [MED Mandev.(1) ((Tit C.16) 165/25) ante 1475]
4. Also, payd to John Kyrkeby mercer for lynen cloth for naperie for the hey tabyl and towaylis for the seyd tabliss for wassing and hemmyng, xliij s. viij d. Accounts. [MED Grocer Lond. ((Kingdon) 283) 1443/1434]
5. Item, x auter clothis of playne and napery; Item, xviii towelles playne and diaperid ... Item, ii copis, i chesepill, ii tunyclis with other ornamentes of blew veluet ... i white tynacle of fustian, i white cloth for the high auter Accounts. [MED Doc.in HMC Rep.3 App. (316.A) 1447]
6. Good son, loke þat þy napery be soote & also feyre & clene, bordclothe, towelle, & napkyn, foldyn alle bydene [MED Russell Bk.Nurt. ((Hrl 4011) 61) ante 1475]
AF, ME, MdE, OScots; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Occupation; charge or custody of the linen in the royal household (attested in English only from the late 15th century).(ante 1350 - post 1875)
AF, MdE.
Sex: Male    Use: Secular    Status: High    Rank: Uncertain    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.
3(n.) Personal Name; appears in a surname (Walter de la Naperye, 1268).(circa 1268)
AF, ME.
Sex: Male    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, AF/Middle French naperie from Old French (13th century; derived from the noun nape (q.v.)).
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