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antimacassar
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tags: [garniture]
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Definition:A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Noah went into the living room and sat down in the velour easy chair with the cheap lace antimacassars on it.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.170 (1948)
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He closed his eyes and rested his head against the antimacassar.
Gyles Brandreth. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders, p.43 (2012)
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There they sat on a heavily antimacassared horsehair sofa, two prim and proper ladies in ruffles and lace,
Alice Walker. The Color Purple, p.237 (1982)
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He darted round the table, pursued by the maligned Mrs. White armed with an antimacassar.W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw
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I would turn to and fro between the prayer-desk and the stamped velvet armchairs, each one always draped in its crocheted antimacassar, while the fire, baking like a pie the appetising smells with which the air of the room,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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I was a little vexed at everybody subsequently laughing at some joke which they did not explain, and it was only on going to bed I discovered I must have been walking about all the evening with an antimacassar on one button of my coat-tails.
George and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody (1882)
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