Victorian were fond of lace and used it for bed canopies, coverlets and pillows, bureau scarfs, doilies, antimacassars, circular placemats, circular coasters for wine glasses at the dining table and edging for napkins and tablecloths, if not the whole tablecloth.
22.
In Maria Matsimpi's tiny fiberglass-roofed living room, where every piece of furniture has a lace antimacassar on it and Rodin's " Kiss " shares the bookcase with African National Congress flags, two enumerators sat for half an hour filling out the form with her.
23.
Sure enough, that following Saturday morning found me scrubbed up, ironed dry, and plunked down in a pink velvet chair complete with antimacassars, awaiting my moment in the gauzily-curtained sanctum sanctorum of Miss Roberta _ founder and chief eyebrow molder of Miss Roberta's School of Charm.
24.
The words Reinke correctly spelled in the contest were : lily, icy, leisurely, applique, acetate, albino, episcopacy, domiciliary, quisling, cornice, calibrate, antimacassar, hawse, eponym, athodyd, demurrage, encephalitis, mantelletta, cosset, fleche, pogrom, milline, and chihuahua.
25.
Glasgow provided the setting for many of his novels, including the most widely read, " Antimacassar City ", " The Philistines " and " The Puritans ", begun in 1940 and which were later published as " Wax Fruit : the Story of the Moorhouse Family " in 1947, It eventually sold one million copies.
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:: : : : Well, antimacassar happens to be one of my favourite words in the entire lexicon, so I'll thank you not to denigrate it by associating it with something you consider stylistically infelicitous . : ) ( I just wish I could get my hands on some macassar oil, the smell of which is incomparable . . . ah, the good old days ).
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The museum's deputy director, Chen Pei Feng, spoke with me in a conference room that was quaintly reminiscent of the views American television used to give us of diplomatic talks held in communist countries : overstuffed, antimacassar-draped chairs lined up against the walls instead of in conversational groupings, so you have to twist your seated body in order to face the person to whom you're talking.
