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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAP , the See also:

pile on See also:cloth, the See also:surface of See also:short See also:fibres raised by See also: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 See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. Noppe, Dutch nap, Nor. napp; the verbal See also:form is noppen or noppen, to See also:trim, cutshort. The word nap also means a short See also:sleep or doze (0, Eng. hnappian). In " napkin," a square of See also:damask or other See also:linen, used for wiping the hands and lips or for protecting the clothes at meals, the second See also:part is a See also:common See also:English suffix, sometimes of diminutive force, and the first is from " nape," 1 See also:Low See also:Lat. napa or nappa, a corrupt form of mappa, table-cloth. Nape still survives in " napery," a name for See also:household linen in See also:general.

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