antimacassar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of antimacassar
First recorded in 1850–55; anti- + Macassar (oil)
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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
I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett.
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
A novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The antimacassar, as its name implies, was designed to protect chairs and couches from the disfiguring stains of macassar oil, then liberally used in the adornment of the hair which received much attention.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
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