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Spanish: Aceite de Macasar.

Definition: Macassar Oil

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Expression 1. 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.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Extended Definition: Macassar oil

Macassar oil

Macassar oil is a compounded oil used primarily by men in Victorian and Edwardian times as a hair oil.

Macassar oil is often made with coconut oil or palm oil combined with "ylang-ylang" oil (obtained by processing the flowers of the Ylang-ylang tree,Cananga odorata) and other fragrant oils. (For details on the tree, as well as the oil extraction process and the oil's use in Macassar oil, see: [1] and [2])

Macassar oil was so named because it was reputed to have been manufactured from ingredients purchased in the port of Makassar in Indonesia.

Due to the tendency for the oil to transfer from a gentleman's hair to the back of the chair he was sitting on, the antimacassar was developed. This is essentially a small crocheted cloth placed over the back of a chair.

See also

  • Brylcreem
  • Antimacassar

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Macassar oil"



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