coatrack
Americannoun
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Origin of coatrack
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Cos make detachable hoods with dicky-style bib fronts which can be layered under a smart coat when rain is forecast, instantly streamlining your coatrack.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2020
Above the coatrack hangs a portrait of an ancestor Anna-Maria calls “the family prince,” a rake who married a French courtesan and built her a castle in Silesia, which was bombed by the Russians.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
Could I free myself from purses altogether, and become a human coatrack?
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2015
Tania pointed to the phone, which stood on a little shelf next to the coatrack.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2013
The shelf above the coatrack was just as crammed as the space below, mostly with old clothes that were full of moth holes and eaten away by mildew.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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