Napkin
A napkin — laid at the convivial table — often touches entertainments where you figure prominently, or humiliating affairs if it's soiled. The dream may ask where you're gathering with others in good fellowship, and whether the cloth at your place stays clean and orderly or stained in a way that hints at disorder and embarrassment.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for napkin, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a napkin, foretells convivial entertainments in which you will figure prominently. For a woman to dream of soiled napkins, foretells that humiliating affairs will thrust themselves upon her.
Fontaine, 1862
A white napkin denotes orderly conduct, which will bring happiness; a dirty napkin, disorderly behavior.