pg. 123
an antimacassar is a covering for use on chairs to prevent oily heads from doing soak damage... like the cloth that hangs on the seats of airplane seats. macassar was a hair oil that came from the port city of Makassar in Indonesia...used on the heads of men of Victorian (1837 - 1901) and Edwardian (1901 - 1910) times
chintz is a cloth made out of calico with flowery designs...perhaps like a doily...
the phrase is used in remembrance of a character's mother
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