antimacassar

英 [,æntɪmə'kæsə] 美 [,æntɪmə'kæsɚ]

antimacassar: antimacassar: [19] An antimacassar was a cloth spread over chairbacks in the 19th and early 20th centuries to protect them from greasy hair. It took its name from Macassar oil, a proprietary brand of hair oil made by Rowland and Son, allegedly from ingredients obtained from Makassar, a region of the island of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) in Indonesia.

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.