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ˈclothes-horse
a. An upright wooden frame standing upon legs, with horizontal bars on which clothes are hung out to dry or air.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xix. xviii. 229 You look like a clothes-horse with a great-coat stretched out upon it, just ready for the rattan. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Hackney-coach Stands (D.), We keep no horse but a clothes-horse. 1883J. Hawthorne Dust I. 60 Wringing out a towel and spreading it out on the clothes-horse to dry.
b. fig. A person whose main function is or appears to be to wear or show off clothes.
1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iii. 37 Idlers, game-preservers and mere human clothes-horses. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee xxxiii. 378, I could see her [sc. England] erect statues and monuments to her unspeakable Georges and other royal and noble clothes-horses. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §452/4 Clothes-horse, an overdressed woman. Ibid. 574/7 Clothes horse, a woman who acts as a clothes model. 1948Richmond (Virginia) Times Dispatch 22 July 18/2 (headline) Janis Paige, Best Clothes-horse, Looks Good Here, Too. 1962J. Ludwig in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 249 She ordered her chauffeur to drive her to Fifi's, Shmifi's—a fancy French place for clothes horses. |