clotheshorse
Americannoun
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Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
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a frame on which to hang wet laundry for drying.
noun
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a frame on which to hang laundry for drying or airing
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informal a dandy
Etymology
Origin of clotheshorse
Example Sentences
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As flattering as that pale purple may be on her, she’s much happier to let her guests’ ensembles, especially noted clotheshorse Kim, in a sweeping chiffon skirt and little white gloves, provide the fashion credentials.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023
Sure, John David Washington’s wardrobe filled this clotheshorse with envy, but the awe I felt at the visual spectacle of Inception is completely missing here.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2020
She is a shopaholic striver with a mountain of credit-card debt, a profligate clotheshorse who, the viewer assumes, cares more about materialist trends than timeless art.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2018
Finally, and perhaps most significantly, one of Mr. Cook’s fiercest competitors, Satya Nadella, the newish chief executive of Microsoft, is also proving something of an uncharacteristic clotheshorse.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2014
We each took a handle of the basket and carried it to the clotheshorse, a rope strung between two wooden frames that we used for drying clothes and linens.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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