different between napery vs apery

English

Etymology

From Middle English naperye, from Anglo-Norman naperie, Middle French naperie, from Old French nape + -erie.

Noun

napery (countable and uncountable, plural naperies)

1. Household linen, especially table linen.
   • 1902: "Corner in Chrysanthemums" by Josephine Spenser

     She led the way through a wide hall into a charming room, where a table was already spread in its dainty napery and silver.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 106:

     Banter and low laughter swayer about the huge tent, swayed among the shadows thrown by the brilliant candelabra pendant on their inverted stems above the white napery of the central table.

Anagrams

• penary, pyrena

Middle English

Noun

napery

1. Alternative form of naperye

English

Etymology

ape +? -ery

Noun

apery (countable and uncountable, plural aperies)

1. A place where apes are kept.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies Chapter 4

     If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.

2. The practice of aping; an apish action.

   • Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.

Translations

Anagrams

• Payer, Peary, payer, peary, praye, rapey, repay