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Macassar oil   Listen
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Macassar oil  n.  A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil. Cf. antimacassar.






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"Macassar oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... coverings which used to be (and are sometimes still) thrown over the backs of easy-chairs and couches to prevent their being soiled by such aids to beauty. Antimacassar means literally a "protection against macassar oil," anti being the Latin ...
— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill



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