antimacassar

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A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil

She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an afterdinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.

a piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of chair from hair oils
{i} small protective cover which is placed on the arms or back of a sofa or armchair
to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair
A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc
antimacassars
plural of antimacassar
antimacassar
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