clotheshorse

[ klohz-hawrs, klohthz- ]

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noun

Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
a frame on which to hang wet laundry for drying.

Origin of clotheshorse

First recorded in 1765–75; clothes + horse

Words Nearby clotheshorse

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How to use clotheshorse in a sentence

So to the kitchen went Kyan, to stand, a sort of living clotheshorse, beside the hot range.
Keziah Coffin | Joseph C. Lincoln
A clotheshorse fell on the horse's back and off he started on a dead run, and that wuz the end of poor Jinnie.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks | Charles Felton Pidgin
What if you couldn't get a clotheshorse to run in a potato-race?
Garrison's Finish | W. B. M. Ferguson

British Dictionary definitions for clotheshorse

clotheshorse

/ (ˈkləʊðzˌhɔːs) /

noun

a frame on which to hang laundry for drying or airing
informal a dandy

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