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別の表記

• clothes-horse, clothes horse

語源

From clothes +‎ horse.

名詞

clotheshorse (plural clotheshorses)

1. A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.

   Synonyms: airer, clothes maiden, clothes screen, drying rack

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:

     In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.

2. (slang, figurative, somewhat derogatory) A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.
   • 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 471:

     Her mother was a genuine clotheshorse. She had had more kimonos and dresses than room in their chests to store them […]

関連する語

• clothesline

参考

• coat hanger

参照

• “clotheshorse”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.