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antimacassar

UK/ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə//ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ɚ/

antimacassar noun: a cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa.

antimacassar: a cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa
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Noun

antimacassar (plural antimacassars)

  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...1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
    • […] how could anyone on a three-legged stool under the high top of the sofa sleep? Especially if the fringe of an antimacassar lolled over the top and tickled your neck?1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small

antimacassar meaning in Urdu

antimacassar in Urdu

غَلافِ کُرسی, فَرنیچَر پوش

Examples of antimacassar in a sentence

  • The upholstery is of Irish tweed, with antimacassars in Irish linen, and the rugs are hand-woven in Celtic design.1951 May, “Notes and News: New Coaches for C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 348:
  • The chesterfield suite, antimacassar-draped.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:

Forms of antimacassar

pluralantimacassars

Origin of antimacassar

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

Words formed from antimacassar

Words that rhyme with antimacassar

Questions about antimacassar

What does antimacassar mean?
Antimacassar means a cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa.
What is antimacassar in Urdu?
Antimacassar in Urdu is غَلافِ کُرسی, فَرنیچَر پوش. See Antimacassar meaning in Urdu.
How do you use antimacassar in a sentence?
The upholstery is of Irish tweed, with antimacassars in Irish linen, and the rugs are hand-woven in Celtic design.
What part of speech is antimacassar?
Antimacassar is a noun.
How do you pronounce antimacassar?
Antimacassar is pronounced /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of antimacassar?
The plural of antimacassar is antimacassars.

Words near antimacassar in the dictionary

  1. antilysins
  2. antilysis
  3. antilyssic
  4. antilyssics
  5. antilytic
  6. antimacassar
  7. antimacassared
  8. antimacassars
  9. antimachine
  10. antimachinery
  11. antimachinist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antimacassar (page history and authors); antimacassar (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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