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Antimacassar

noun
1.
A piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of a chair from hair oils.






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"Antimacassar" Quotes from Famous Books



... her clay-bespattered habit, Violet sank into one of the satin-covered chairs, and made a wreck of an antimacassar worked in crewels by Mrs. ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon

... ill-founded. A chair was overturned; Virginia was lying face downwards upon the floor in front of the desk. Phineas Duge dropped his cigarette, and fell on his knees by her side. Then he saw that her hands and feet were tied with an antimacassar torn into strips, and a rude sort of gag was in her mouth. She opened her eyes at his touch, and moaned slightly. In a moment or two he had released her from her bonds, and removed the handkerchief which had been tied ...
— The Governors • E. Phillips Oppenheim



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