clotheshorse
Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
a frame on which to hang wet laundry for drying.
Origin of clotheshorse
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How to use clotheshorse in a sentence
She was ironing linen on a flannel table-cloth, a row of such apparel hanging on a clothes-horse by the fire.
The Well-Beloved | Thomas Hardy(To guests)—Perhaps, some of you gentlemen wouldn't mind lending us your overcoats to cover the clothes-horse?
Gloom descends over the company, until the Poor Relative arrives, staggering under the clothes-horse.
It was a clothes-horse once, but genius was brought to bear upon it, and it is a very imposing object now.
Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) | Mary CholmondeleyTo-day he hurt himself by getting one of his toes caught in a hinge of the clothes-horse.
Animal Intelligence | George J. Romanes
British Dictionary definitions for clotheshorse
/ (ˈkləʊðzˌhɔːs) /
a frame on which to hang laundry for drying or airing
informal a dandy
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