http://www.englishrules.com/wotd/2006/antimacassar/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.englishrules.com/wotd/2006/antimacassar/#comment-66 Karl Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:29:03 +0000 http://www.englishrules.com/wotd/2006/03/12/antimacassar/#comment-66 That <em>is</em> amazing. I had never heard of the word before, either. For more on "antimacassar," check out this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimacassar" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia entry</a>. That is amazing. I had never heard of the word before, either. For more on “antimacassar,” check out this Wikipedia entry.

]]> http://www.englishrules.com/wotd/2006/antimacassar/#comment-65 Dad Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:20:31 +0000 http://www.englishrules.com/wotd/2006/03/12/antimacassar/#comment-65 I don't recall ever hearing that word before, and was amazed that my wife knew that men used to use macassar on their hair. It was an oily material, evidently, requiring that chairs and sofas be protected against being stained by it. The stuff that's in that woman's brain....... I don’t recall ever hearing that word before, and was amazed that my wife knew that men used to use macassar on their hair. It was an oily material, evidently, requiring that chairs and sofas be protected against being stained by it. The stuff that’s in that woman’s brain…….

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