antimacassar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of antimacassar
First recorded in 1850–55; anti- + Macassar (oil)
Vocabulary lists containing antimacassar
Example Sentences
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Today, the style known as Art Nouvemt seems about as "new" as Grandmother's antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
His strength was neurosis, and the best of his etchings, with their strangely modern battles of id and antimacassar, are illustrations of a Freudian maxim: civilization is repression.
From Time Magazine Archive
A novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the few complaints of Corriere staffers is that in holding to 19th century standards, the paper often seems as fusty as an antimacassar.
From Time Magazine Archive
You can't pretend to be sincere in trying to pull that antimacassar home-and-mother stuff on me.
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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