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Antimacassar

noun

A piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of a chair from hair oils.

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... used to be an antimacassar; but Miss Gabriel had it made up for me, all the shirts in store bein' ...

— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that. And of course Bloom had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower's heart violent exercise was bad. I declare to my antimacassar if you took up a straw from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. Do you see that straw? That's a straw. Declare to my aunt he'd talk about it for an hour so he ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... plum-coloured gloves, and their toilet was complete. The contrast between the handsome white-and-gold theatre and the rows of portly, dowdy matrons, each one with her ample bosom swathed in a piece of antimacassar, was very comical. Every abonne had his own peg for hanging his coat and hat on, and this, and the fact that one's neighbours in the stalls were invariably the same, gave quite a family atmosphere to the ...

— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton

... cottons, to match a shade, or to find a size they wanted. The expenditure was not great, and it gave an object to their walk. "I must go out," they would say to each other, "for there is that pink to match;" or "I shall be at a stand-still with my antimacassar; my cotton is almost done." It was not the fault of Minnie and Chatty that they ...

— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Words linked to "Antimacassar" : cloth covering