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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--napier This week's theme: professions of the past. napier (NAY-pee-uhr) noun One in charge of table linen in a royal household. [Apparently from Anglo-Norman nape (tablecloth).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The napier handed these napkins." Sydney Smith; The Edinburgh Review; 1929 X-Bonus Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. -Eli Khamarov

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