antimacassarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌæn.tɪ.məˈkæs.ɚ/
• 韻: -æsə(ɹ)

名詞

antimacassar (plural antimacassars)

1. A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa.
   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Mrs. Crane”, in The Book of Small‎:

     […] 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?

   • 1951 May, “Notes and News: New Coaches for C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 348:

     The upholstery is of Irish tweed, with antimacassars in Irish linen, and the rugs are hand-woven in Celtic design.

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