"It is all Victorian, as Rodman says, all covered up with antimacassars, all quivering with sensibility and an inordinate respect for the genteel" (Stegner, Angle of Repose, p. 68).
Antimacassar (plural, antimacassars): A cover to protect the back or arms of furniture.
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I always wondered what that was. :)
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