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>apple pie order <> napier
not me.. I don't think I've even heard it used before.
-joe (nappes pliées) friday
the french is "folded napkins/linens/cloth' (napier plei?(like a plei in ballet, a 'folded or bent' knee)
its easy to see a napier Plie (folden cloth/es) =turning into
a(n) ap(p)le Pie (an apple pie)--> to apple pie order (neat)
(the idiom apple pie order came into english after WWI)
(but i remember first reading about it here)
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