macassar oil in English
oily substance that was used in the past to make the hair smooth and shiny
Use "macassar oil" in a sentence
1. A conditioner popular with men in the late Victorian era was Macassar oil, but this product was quite greasy and required pinning a small cloth, known as an antimacassar, to chairs and sofas to keep the upholstery from being damaged by the oil.
2. Anti-macassar (n.) also Antimacassar, 1848, from anti-+ macassar oil, supposedly imported from the district of Macassar on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, which was commercially advertised from 1809 as a men's hair tonic "infallible in promoting an abundant growth and in maintaining the early hue and lustre of the HAIR to the extent of human life" [1830].