clothes-peg
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of clothes-peg
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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Her clothes hung on her as on a clothes-peg.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John
He was a great fat, black-and-white brute, with a head like a hat-box, a tail like a clothes-peg, and a back as broad as a well-fed sheep's.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith
Dear Diana after hounds a riding Like—a clothes-peg on a clothes-line?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various
The mere notion of the passage and the clothes-peg and the umbrella-stand annihilated him.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
At the same time he was slyly working a clothes-peg into the hay, which he intended to find in a moment after, and then go on joking again.
From Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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