napkinette

napkin +‎ -ette

napkinette (plural napkinettes)

1. A small napkin.
   1. A small diaper. [From early 20th c.]
      • 1915, “Post Graduate Week at the General Lying-In Hospital, York Road, S.E.” in The British Journal of Nursing, Volume 54, No. 1417, 29 May, 1915, p. 473,

        Patent napkinettes have been discontinued in the hospital, as it was estimated that their cost was ₤300 yearly.

      • 1993, Carol Shields, chapter 2, in The Stone Diaries, London: Fourth Estate, published 1994, page 48:

        anyone peeking inside her small valise would have found only a folded woolen coat for herself, a dozen napkinettes in fine canton flannel for the infant, and a baby’s feeding bottle with three black rubber teats

   2. A small serviette.
      • 1978, Sophy Burnham, “On Power” in The Landed Gentry, New York: Putnam, p. 289,

        so smug and proud in their Lacoste shirts, with their gin and tonics set on little napkinettes before them