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 --
The width of the antimacassar, at the widest part, is 26 inches; a margin is left beyond the border, of about one inch, and the depth is eighteen inches.
On the floor was a worn and shabby carpet; and some plain, wooden chairs; a haircloth sofa, with its antimacassar and crocheted cushion, completed the furnishings.
Not only given it to her, but fastened it in the antimacassar.
It smelt of furniture polish, cake and antimacassars.
And that evening was most surely wonderful, in a parlor all antimacassars and rocker chairs with pink bows.
The mats and antimacassars never budged an inch from their places.
There were enormities in the shape of woolen antimacassars, a flimsy curtain hung before the small window.
In good sooth, a young maid is all the better for learning some robuster virtues than maidenliness and not to move the antimacassars.
