also antimacassar, 1852, from anti- + macassar oil, proprietary name of a hair tonic advertised as imported from the district of Macassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The cloth was laid to protect chair and sofa fabric from people leaning their oily heads back against it.
双语例句
1. After lunch was about an hour of allotted rest time, in a cavernous room antimacassar - backed armchairs.
