clotheshorse

Example Sentences

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Clare’s interactions with the women in her life are playful and sympathetic even as she discovers that her ethics separate her from these clotheshorses.

From Los Angeles Times

As a clotheshorse, he had certain natural advantages, of course.

From New York Times

I used to be something of a casual clotheshorse, an obsessive buyer of T-shirts, baseball caps, socks and Adidas sneakers.

From New York Times

Nancy Reagan famously used a surprise turn on the Gridiron stage to mock her image as a designer clotheshorse by performing “Second Hand Rose” while wearing secondhand clothes.

From Washington Post

If this just-created Frankensteinian clotheshorse were again reduced to a coat and hat, would all memory of its “human” existence disappear?

From Washington Post