clotheshorse

[ klohz-hawrs, klohthz- ]
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noun
  1. Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.

  2. a frame on which to hang wet laundry for drying.

Origin of clotheshorse

1
First recorded in 1765–75; clothes + horse

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British Dictionary definitions for clotheshorse

clotheshorse

/ (ˈkləʊðzˌhɔːs) /


noun
  1. a frame on which to hang laundry for drying or airing

  2. informal a dandy

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