antimacassar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə/    美 /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa.
    — She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an after-dinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.

词形变化

antimacassars plural

词源

From anti- + macassar. Antimacassars were originally used to protect upholstery from being soiled by macassar oil in the sitter's hair.
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