(thing) by Deborah909 Sun Nov 14 1999 at 8:59:59

A kind of hair oil, popular in the nineteenth century. Antimacassars, those Victorian doilies draped over chairs to protect the upholstery from macassar, still seem to be around. But does anyone use macassar any more?

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