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Antimacassar

noun
1.
A piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of a chair from hair oils.





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... arrived at a healthy state of things. There is still the Tottenham Court Road and a threatened revival of Louis Seize furniture, and the 'popular pictorial print struggles through the meshes of the antimacassar.' Art depends on Life. We cannot get it from machines. And yet machines are bad only when they are our masters. The printing press is a machine that Art values because it obeys her. True art must have the vital energy of life itself, must take its ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde


Words linked to "Antimacassar" :   cloth covering


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