anti-macassar

[,æntɪmə'kæsə]

anti-macassar (n.): 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.

1. After lunch was about an hour of allotted rest time, in a cavernous room antimacassar - backed armchairs.: 午餐过后,有大约一个小时的规定休息时间, 地点是在一间像洞穴一样的房间里.