- (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 synonym servietteHe 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.