clotheshorse

[ klohz-hawrs, klohthz- ]

noun

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

clotheshorse

/ ˈkləʊðzˌhɔːs /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of clotheshorse¹

First recorded in 1765–75; clothes + horse

Example Sentences

So to the kitchen went Kyan, to stand, a sort of living clotheshorse, beside the hot range.

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A clotheshorse fell on the horse's back and off he started on a dead run, and that wuz the end of poor Jinnie.

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What if you couldn't get a clotheshorse to run in a potato-race?

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