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Macassar oil   Listen
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Macassar oil  n.  A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil. Cf. antimacassar.






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"Macassar oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... took up the tale: He said "I go my ways, And when I find a mountain-rill, I set it in a blaze; And thence they make a stuff they call Rolands' Macassar Oil— Yet twopence-halfpenny is all They ...
— Through the Looking-Glass • Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll



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