| Word | antimacassar |
|---|---|
| Definition | n. A cloth placed over the back of a chair to protect the upholstery from being soiled by the user's head and hair. |
| Sentence | It was painful to compare her own dismally "respectable" East End home, with its inevitable aspidistra and kippers, pink-rose wallpapers and antimacassars… |
| Source | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose Image: Joshua Brown, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_Anglia_First_Class_Mk3_Coach_J.jpg, CC-BY-SA 2.0 |
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