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clotheshorses

clotheshorses is the plural of clotheshorse.

Meaning of clotheshorse

Noun

clotheshorse (plural clotheshorses)

  1. A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.
    • In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279
  2. (derogatory, figuratively, slang) A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.
    • Her mother was a genuine clotheshorse. She had had more kimonos and dresses than room in their chests to store them […]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

Questions about clotheshorses

What is clotheshorses the plural of?
Clotheshorses is the plural of clotheshorse.

Words near clotheshorses in the dictionary

  1. clothesbrush
  2. clothesbrushes
  3. clothescare
  4. clotheses
  5. clotheshorse
  6. clotheshorses
  7. clothesies
  8. clothesless
  9. clotheslessness
  10. clothesline
  11. clotheslined

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