What is "macassar"

Usage examples of "macassar".

White lace doilies lay like winter snowflakes on all the arms of the furniture, and linen antiMacassars anachronistically protected the upholstered backs from men who no longer slicked their hair with Macassar oil.

He had made the Macassar voyage, wore a kris, and spoke the Bugis Malay intelligibly enough.

In any event, disagreeable though the people looked, and uninviting, they were induced to trade and Captain Carteret came away with stores that kept his people in health until the Straits of Macassar.

A user of cheap macassar oil, but a man of enough cranial capacity to have a certain cunning.

Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear’.

His hair is combed back as if he loaded it with macassar oil—.

Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.

But it was good to lean into James' strength, to feel the warmth of his flesh through the shirt sleeve, the muscle and rib beneath that nondescript tweed waistcoat, and to smell ink and book dust and Macassar oil.

The expensive macassar oil that slicked his hair back glinted in the dying light of sunset as his reflection wavered in the Carlton Club's windows.

He was handsome, in a dark way, with his thin moustache and macassar oil on his hair.

To Scarlett, this house cried out for the masculine smells of brandy, tobacco and Macassar oil, for hoarse voices and occasional curses, for guns, for whiskers, for saddles and bridles and for hounds underfoot.

He turned his head to show the loss - fifteen years of careful plaiting, combing, encouraging with best Macassar oil, reduced to a bristly stump three inches long.

Beside them a regiment of stiffbacked waiters stood to attention, the diagonal planes of their noses held at exactly forty-five degrees to the icy blue marble floor, their haircuts macassared in perfect geometry, their hooded eyes impossible to catch.