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单词 clotheshorse
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clotheshorse

[ klohz-hawrs, klohthz- ]
/ ˈkloʊzˌhɔrs, ˈkloʊðz- /
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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

First recorded in 1765–75; clothes + horse

Words nearby clotheshorse

cloth-cap, clothe, cloth-eared, clothes, clothesbasket, clotheshorse, clothesline, clothes moth, clothes-peg, clothespin, clothes pole
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Example sentences from the Web for clotheshorse

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

    Garrison's Finish|W. 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 Folks|Charles Felton Pidgin

British Dictionary definitions for clotheshorse

clotheshorse
/ (ˈkləʊðzˌhɔːs) /

noun

a frame on which to hang laundry for drying or airing
informal a dandy
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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