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What is an antimacassar?

What is an antimacassar? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.
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Over the back was an ecru antimacassar, tied with a pale-blue ribbon.
I want you to know Mr. Brown, that I don't take off my antimacassar for just anyone.
And you soon get tired of a dove coo-ing in your ear when your antimacassar is an inch deep in bird droppings.
Standard Soviet antimacassar deployment pattern, a 3-element protective system is depicted as 3 lace doilies protecting the arms and back of an easy chair.
Rural laconics like Will Rogers or George Gobel were always curios of another age, like the antimacassar.
My grandfather was a Brylcreem man, and the antimacassar on his Parker Knoll armchair — a high-backed number with wings for him to snooze against — was not merely decorative.

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