- (also table napkin)
a piece of cloth or paper used at meals for protecting your clothes and cleaning your lips and fingers 餐巾；餐巾纸 
He tucked his napkin under his chin. 他把餐巾掖到下巴底下。 She dabbed her mouth with her table napkin. 她用餐巾轻轻擦了擦嘴。 a napkin ring (= for holding a napkin when it is not in use) made of silver 用银制成的餐巾环
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- folded
- table
- cloth
- …
- fold
- unfold
- tuck
- …
- holder
- ring
- (also sanitary napkin (both North American English))(also sanitary pad British and North American English)(British English also sanitary towel)
a thick piece of soft material that a woman wears between her legs to hold blood during her period 卫生巾；月经带 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- folded
- table
- cloth
- …
- fold
- unfold
- tuck
- …
- holder
- ring
- (British English, old-fashioned or formal)
a nappy (= a piece of soft cloth or other thick material that is folded around a baby’s bottom and between its legs to take in and hold its body waste) 餐巾纸： 尿布
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French nappe ‘tablecloth’ (from Latin mappa ‘sheet, napkin’) + -kin.