antimacassar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of antimacassar
First recorded in 1850–55; anti- + Macassar (oil)
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Example Sentences
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Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way.
From Time Magazine Archive
This bit of bravado did not seriously damage Raphael's reputation, and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves grew to seem the epitome of Victorianism, sweet as treacle and finicky as a lace antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, the style known as Art Nouvemt seems about as "new" as Grandmother's antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The antimacassar and the family album; in what veneration they were held!
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph
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