antimacassar

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English

WOTD – 4 August 2007

Etymology

From anti- +‎ macassar.

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Noun

antimacassar (plural antimacassars)

  1. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
      She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an after-dinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.
    • 1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small‎:
      […] how could anyone on a three-legged stool under the high top of the sofa sleep? Especially if the fringe of an antimacassar lolled over the top and tickled your neck?
    • 1951 May, “Notes and News: New Coaches for C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 348:
      The upholstery is of Irish tweed, with antimacassars in Irish linen, and the rugs are hand-woven in Celtic design.

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