clotheshorse
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clotheshorse (plural clotheshorses)
- A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.
- Synonyms: airer, clothes maiden, clothes screen, drying rack
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:
- In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.
- (figurative) A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.
- 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 471:
- Her mother was a genuine clotheshorse. She had had more kimonos and dresses than room in their chests to store them […]
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laundry frame
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person
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- “clotheshorse”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.