clotheshorse
[klohz-hawrs, klohth z-]
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
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Historical Examples of clotheshorse
What if you couldn't get a clotheshorse to run in a potato-race?
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
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 FolksCharles Felton Pidgin
clotheshorse
noun
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