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sanappa

sanappa [ME sanappe < salvanappa], ~us, cloth runner placed over a tablecloth to protect it, napkin, towel. 1410 de ij mappis et ij sanepis. debilibus de xviij d. de uno towell, ix uln. Test. Ebor. III 45; a1440 towellus ‥ whyȝth as the seeys fame, ~us of the same, thus servyd thei ware (Sir Degrev. 1387) OED s. v. sanap; 1450 unam mappam cum duobus tuellis et duobus ~is MunAcOx 605.

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