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The Skivvies lay it all on the line each and every performance – the clothesline, that is.
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Emily Ratajakowski, perpetually bikini-bound, made like a nonna and hung her towels on a clothesline amid the Italian landscape.
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Three students pinned their photographs of people and places and life in Mosul on a long clothesline and recounted the stories behind them.
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Clothing dries on a series of clotheslines strung across Cowger’s yard.
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While public housing residents sat outside one recent evening barbecuing on a tiny grill, with laundry drying on their clotheslines, more affluent neighbors two blocks away played bocce ball and outdoor ping-pong under strings of lights.
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Use a clothespin or binder clip to hang each bag on a clothesline in bright light but away from direct sunlight.
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González, the Cuban musician and producer who acted as Ry Cooder’s A&R man for the original Buena Vista album, ducks under a clothesline full of washing, his graying dreadlocks brushing against a bright-colored bra.
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The details are stunningly real—an old chandelier flickers with light, miniature trousers hang on a frayed clothesline, a tiny bird’s nest is burrowed in a charred cornice.
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First Known Use of clothesline
1830
2
clothesline
verb
clothes·line
Definition of clothesline
transitive verb
: to knock down (someone, such as a football player) by catching by the neck with an outstretched arm
First Known Use of clothesline
1964
CLOTHESLINE Defined for English Language Learners
clothesline
play
noun
Definition of clothesline for English Language Learners
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: a piece of rope or a wire that people hang wet clothes on to dry
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