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NAP

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 167 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NAP , the
pile
  on
cloth
 , the surface of short
fibres
  raised by
special
  processes, differing with the various fabrics, and then smoothed and cut. Formerly the word was applied to the roughness on textiles before shearing. " Nap " in this sense appears in many Teutonic
languages
 , cf. Ger. Noppe, Dutch nap, Nor. napp; the verbal form is noppen or noppen, to trim, cutshort. The word nap also means a short sleep or doze (0, Eng. hnappian). In " napkin," a square of damask or other
linen
 , used for wiping the hands and lips or for protecting the clothes at meals, the second
part
  is a common
English
  suffix, sometimes of diminutive force, and the first is from " nape," 1 Low Lat. napa or nappa, a corrupt form of mappa, table-
cloth
 . Nape still survives in " napery," a name for
household
 
linen
  in
general
 .


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