Laundry frame

Usage examples of clotheshorse.

So to the kitchen went Kyan, to stand, a sort of living clotheshorse, beside the hot range.

Where his younger brother had the big slab-sided Flanders-mare build of the old woman, who, though she was drowned in pale cool fat, still had the solid muscles given by a hundred years of buckling into the beetroot harvest under the skies of Artois, he had the loosely jointed clotheshorse look of the old man who, in his sleeveless vest and bib-and-brace salopette, had the scrawny neck of a plucked turkey and whose puckered blue jaw moved awkwardly and woodenly to and fro in an uncertain wobble the whole time, rather as though a wasp were buzzing about just at the back of his neck and he was trying to catch a glimpse of it, to know where to launch a smack from the desiccated forearm.

I was back in my attic, and my mother was raising the pulley of the clotheshorse in the kitchen.

Hero of the rebellion, professional clotheshorse, and a general pain in the ass.

A small wooden clotheshorse still stood, its hanging rags once a screen for some modest family and probably, like other carefully placed items along the platform, a marker for regular users of the shelter, a sign of territorial claim.

First met you, I figured you for a clotheshorse and a face-maker, with nothing inside.

First met you, I figured you for a clotheshorse and a facemaker, with nothing inside.

A noted clotheshorse, he had a closet full of suits and ties for every occasion.

As if anybody could measure you against a total zero, a clotheshorse, a cheap flirt!

Van Dine was in fact something of a clotheshorse with a fashion sense both fastidious and stylish, particularly after his mystery-writing success.

No clotheshorse, he was addicted to ever-rumpled, bargain-priced suits with white linen handkerchiefs stuffed sloppily in the breast pocket.

There was an iron stove against one wall, with a clotheshorse in front of it, where some dingy shirts were steaming, and on a dressing table there was a shrine of plastic flowers, seashells, colored scent bottles, and other gaudy bits and pieces, all surrounding the picture of a jaunty skeleton with a top hat and dark glasses.

Hell, I was so far gone I loved you when you were just an overblown, brainless, arrogant prick of a clotheshorse and I damned well should have known better!