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ANTIMACASSAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 127 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTIMACASSAR , a See also:

separate covering for the back of a See also:chair, or the See also:head or cushions of a See also:sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric. The name is attributable to the unguent for the See also:hair commonly used in the See also:early 19th See also:century,—Byron calls it " thine incomparable oil, See also:Macassar." The See also:original antimacassar was almost invariably made of See also:white crochet-See also:work, very stiff, hard, and uncomfortable, but in the third See also:quarter of the 19th century it became simpler and less inartistic, and was made of soft coloured stuffs, usually worked with a See also:simple See also:pattern in tinted wools or See also:silk.

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