pipe rack

¹

noun

1. a usually wheeled rack of metal piping on which to hang clothing, as in a store.
2. a small rack, usually of wood, for holding a smoker's pipes.

pipe-rack

²

[ pahyp-rak ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pipe rack¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

"No," replied Vandover with a long breath, looking vaguely at the pipe-rack on the opposite wall.

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He stretched out his hand towards the pipe rack, filled another pipe and lit it.

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On Stan's armchair, near his pipe-rack, was her hat, and her clothing lay in a heap where she had stepped out of it.

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There they are now, hanging over the pipe-rack by the fireplace in my snuggery in dear old England.

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It revolted Vandover even to think of putting a pipe-rack over it.

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