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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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
A novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, the style known as Art Nouvemt seems about as "new" as Grandmother's antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the few complaints of Corriere staffers is that in holding to 19th century standards, the paper often seems as fusty as an antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
They did not see the Princess Everilda, because he had just time, when he heard them coming, to throw a red and green crochet antimacassar over her, and to hide her behind an armchair.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
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