antimacassar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of antimacassar
First recorded in 1850–55; anti- + Macassar (oil)
Vocabulary lists containing antimacassar
Example Sentences
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His strength was neurosis, and the best of his etchings, with their strangely modern battles of id and antimacassar, are illustrations of a Freudian maxim: civilization is repression.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, the style known as Art Nouvemt seems about as "new" as Grandmother's antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
A novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way.
From Time Magazine Archive
How cultivated the mind that thus raises literature to the position of upholstery and puts thought on a level with the antimacassar!
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
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