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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clothes horse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse.
▪ The clothes horse was drawn up.
▪ The fire had been sparked by a clothes horse falling on to an electric fire.
▪ The old-fashioned clothes horse offered to children with a blanket and some clothes pegs lets them explore triangular three-dimensional shapes.
▪ There is plenty of room to work around it in safety and no clothes horse to fall over!
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Clothes horse

A clothes horse, sometimes called a clothes rack, drying horse, clothes maiden, drying rack, drying stand, Frostick, airer, or (Scots) winterdyke, is a frame upon which clothes are hung after washing, indoors or outdoors, to dry by evaporation. The frame is usually made of wood, metal or plastic.

Usage examples of "clothes horse".

But it turns out Miss Harris is a pretty good clothes horse and Mike, who can talk the hind leg off a donkey, keeps her laughing in the taxi.

Waterhouse is hardly a clothes horse, but he can see at a glance that Chattan's uniform was not thrown together by Mummy in a few evenings in front of a flickering coal grate.

Anna divested herself of all but her underpants-lacy peach confections, the last vestige of a former clothes horse.

This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small furnace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.

One other item of clothing was left on the clothes horse, a whatchamacallit like Roberto Lauffer was wearing.