单词 | clothes horse |
释义 | clothes horse From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishclothes horseˈclothes horse noun [countable]1 British English a frame that you hang clothes on to dry indoors2 WEAR CLOTHES American English informal a woman who is very interested in clothes and who likes to have many different clothes – used to show disapprovalExamples from the Corpusclothes horse• The fire had been sparked by a clothes horse falling on to an electric fire.• She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse.• 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!• The clothes horse was drawn up. |
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