0 a cloth, used mainly in the past, for putting over the back of a chair in order to keep it clean or to decorate it
It was a comfortable little place, with pictures on the walls and antimacassars on all the chairs, and a row of pink vases on the mantelpiece.
So she laid the doll on the sofa, and covered it with an antimacassar, to sleep.
The priest pulled out an arm-chair covered with horsehair and an antimacassar.
The small rosettes and remaining patterns of the antimacassar are easily worked from illustration.
Every chair had its antimacassar, spread at its correct old-maidish angle.
This antimacassar is a sort of bag, slipped over the top of the chair.
The back of the antimacassar may be of either worked or plain muslin.
