Usually means: Protective cover for furniture upholstery.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. antimacassar: Merriam-Webster
  2. antimacassar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antimacassar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antimacassar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antimacassar: Vocabulary.com
  6. antimacassar: Wordnik
  7. antimacassar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antimacassar: Wiktionary
  9. antimacassar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antimacassar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antimacassar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Antimacassar, antimacassar: Dictionary.com
  13. antimacassar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Antimacassar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Antimacassar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. antimacassar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. antimacassar: Rhymezone
  18. Antimacassar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. antimacassar: FreeDictionary.org
  20. antimacassar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. antimacassar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Antimacassar: World Wide Words
  23. antimacassar: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. antimacassar: A Word A Day
  2. antimacassar: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antimacassar: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antimacassar)

▸ noun:  A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, originally to prevent them from being soiled by macassar oil.

Similar:
chaircover, tidy, seatback, seatcover, armchair, cover, dorsar, arm-chair, manchette, cushion cosy, more...

Opposite:
macassar

Adjectives:
white, crocheted, starched, work, netted, victorian, coarse, embroidered, compare, red
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Similar:
chaircover, tidy, seatback, seatcover, armchair, cover, dorsar, arm-chair, manchette, cushion cosy, more...

Opposite:
macassar

Adjectives:
white, crocheted, starched, work, netted, victorian, coarse, embroidered, compare, red



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