clothesbasket
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of clothesbasket
Example Sentences
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The two strongest remained in their roomy clothesbasket, warmed with hot water bottles.
From Time Magazine Archive
He fetched a potato scales and weighed the lot in the clothesbasket: 13 Ib.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only God knew who was who and who was first in the clothesbasket.
From Time Magazine Archive
And she took something out of the clothesbasket, and spread it on the ironing-blanket.
From The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
Sheila, flanked by clothesbasket and workbasket, sat on the veranda mending his shirts.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
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