macassar

• Using exotics such as makore, narra, bubinga, imbuya, wenge, zebrawood, aniegre and macassar ebony offer "unique aesthetics that you can't get with solid wood," says Langin, 42. —  Victorville Daily Press :
• Oh yeah - the file handle is bloodwood and macassar ebony, sealed with CA glue and hit on the buffer with some red compound. —  Mandolin Cafe News
• O Colletti, you whose inborn melody, once of kindred as I judged to 'the Melodies eternal,' might have valiantly weeded out this and the other false thing from the ways of men, and made a bit of God's creation more melodious,--they have purchased you away from that; chained you to the wheel of Prince Mahogany's chariot, and here you make sport for a macassar Singedelomme and his improper-females past the prime of life! —  The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
• A NEW AND ELEGANT WORK FOR SOFA PILLOWS, ANTI-MACASSARS, CARD-BASKETS, &c We will describe how to make an anti-macassar Take Penelope canvass, three quarters of a yard long, half a yard wide; a piece of crimson china ribbon; one piece of gold-colour, one of shaded lilac, and a rug-needle Prepare the canvass by cutting away every 2 alternate threads, and draw them out the whole length of the canvass; next cut away and draw them out with tweezers, every 2 alternate threads, the whole of the width of the canvass. —  The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850
• This chair was uncomfortably in exactly the same spot where it had always been uncomfortable; and the same anti-macassar was draped over its uncompromising back. —  The Grim Smile of the Five Towns

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