Macassar
Macassar oil

Wallace finds staying in the town of Macassar expensive, and moves out into the countryside.

Macassar Oil which would darken her hair and prolong her life.

Brown related to me in detail their passage down the Straits of Macassar.

"I love the sumptuousness of Macassar," he said.

Macassar's history is closely tied to the Strand as it is from here that its first inhabitants came.

It sent poisonous sulfur dioxide clouds billowing over the small town of Macassar.

It is one of the major rivers which flow into the Strait of Macassar.

Yusuf was buried on the hills of Faure, overlooking Macassar.

The poet Byron called it "thine incomparable oil, Macassar."

"I have 600 feet of Macassar and it's perfect for you," said Mr. Ives.

The captured slaves were to be later sold in Malaya, Macassar, or Java.

There is currently a project to reintroduce the plant to the grounds of a military base that is near to its original Macassar habitat.

In 1515, Portuguese first landed near modern Pante Macassar.

During that time, some Gäwa and Elcho people travelled back to Macassar.

Its capital was Macassar on Celebes.

The capital was in Pante Macassar.

Macassar or Makassar may refer to:

Think of a 1920's Ruhlmann macassar ebony cabinet inlaid in ivory with tapered legs and silver shoes.

The first residents evacuated from Macassar were returning to their homes along streets yellow with chemical residue left by the burning sulfur dioxide.

The first Europeans to arrive in the area were the Portuguese, who landed near modern Pante Macassar.

The alabaster is genuine, though the ebony macassar is painted fiberboard, and the ivory is plastic.

After this date the place lost its significance, since the Topasses preferred to keep their residence in Pante Macassar further to the east.

Can they get over Major Bedhead's annoying pleads until Auntie Macassar gets to the party?

Its last population in the wild was at Macassar on the Cape Flats but it was destroyed in 1992 to make way for housing.

Macassar is a small town in South Africa, close to Strand and Somerset West, with an approximate population of 38,136.

Macassar oil was an unguent for the hair commonly used in the early 19th century.

Macassar Oil which would darken her hair and prolong her life.

Schleichera trijuga is the source of Indian macassar oil.

Also refers to the cloth flap on a sailor's blouse, used to keep macassar oil off the uniform.

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

Distant light from the Coast showed dark eyes and curly hair that glistened as if the man dressed it with Macassar oil.

Other substances, including macassar oil and petroleum jelly, had been in use for this purpose earlier and made popular by such figures as Rudolph Valentino.

Rowland's Macassar Oil;

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

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.

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.

Macassar oil is a compounded oil used primarily by men in Victorian and Edwardian times as a hair conditioner to groom, style and maintain healthy hair.

Charlie was a soft, round boy with a pale skin, a likeable, cow-eyed face and cowlicked hair that refused to stay in place no matter how much Macassar oil he applied.

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

Their tails, at a legislative price, now bring me in a good income; for I have discovered a way, in which, by means of Macassar oil, I can force three crops in a year.

The butler, Samuel, juggled those and the wrapped 567 package as Gideon rubbed a palm over his hair, which he now parted in the middle and groomed with Macassar oil, as most men did.

Macassar oil is often made with coconut oil or palm oil or that of Schleichera trijuga, combined with ylang-ylang oil (obtained by processing the flowers of the ylang-ylang tree, Cananga odorata).

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.

^^^^^^^^^^SONS AND LOVERS: GLOSSARY ANTIMACASSAR Cover to protect a sofa or chair against a particular hair dressing made of Macassar oil.

His accents mild 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 give me for my toil."

The use of Macassar oil (derived from the fruit of trees found in the Macassar district of the Celebes Islands) for dressing men's hair was popularized by A. Rowland, of Hatton Garden, London, who advertised his product very extensively, and succeeded in driving bear's-grease preparations off the market.

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 Macassar oil.