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Recent Examples of clotheshorse
Apart from the pleasurable wonder of watching these excellent real horses alongside McCartney’s excellent model clotheshorses, that adjacency was also designed to stimulate the audience’s consideration of animal cruelty in the fashion industry.
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Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2023
Megan Thee Stallion is a lithe clotheshorse of a wordsmith whose lyricall bread and butter is commanding men to pleasure her.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
Mary Lincoln, like Jackie, was a Francophile and a clotheshorse.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
Andi tries to stick with castoffs from a friend who is a clotheshorse and is also sensitive to chemicals.
—Alden Wicker, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Oct. 2020
For Roger Stone, the clotheshorse and political operative convicted of witness tampering and lying to Congress, creating his own: Mr. Stone’s Best and Worst Dressed List (presumably not anymore).
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
The hats are especially lovely, and Michelle Dockery, here blanded-down by her material but still one of the bright lights of the ensemble, takes top honors as both actress and clotheshorse.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
Monday evening was all about the Basquiat-collecting clotheshorse billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the first passenger on the Big Fu— uh, Big Falcon Rocket (BFR).
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2018
Luke Leitch, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2023
Megan Thee Stallion is a lithe clotheshorse of a wordsmith whose lyricall bread and butter is commanding men to pleasure her.
—Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
Mary Lincoln, like Jackie, was a Francophile and a clotheshorse.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
Andi tries to stick with castoffs from a friend who is a clotheshorse and is also sensitive to chemicals.
—Alden Wicker, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Oct. 2020
For Roger Stone, the clotheshorse and political operative convicted of witness tampering and lying to Congress, creating his own: Mr. Stone’s Best and Worst Dressed List (presumably not anymore).
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
The hats are especially lovely, and Michelle Dockery, here blanded-down by her material but still one of the bright lights of the ensemble, takes top honors as both actress and clotheshorse.
—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
Monday evening was all about the Basquiat-collecting clotheshorse billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the first passenger on the Big Fu— uh, Big Falcon Rocket (BFR).
—Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clotheshorse
Noun
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And Via Carota’s sister restaurant the Commerce Inn speaks the same simple-yet-exquisite vernacular, with a an American Shaker accent, and does take reservations.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Mar. 2026
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Inter Miami midfielder Sergio Busquets found Messi in between the lines with a nice pass on the play, and Messi proceeded to hit an exquisite through ball to a streaking Rodriguez for a 1-on-1 look that was tucked away.—
Franco Panizo,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The young women and their cavaliers headed to L’Arc, a nightclub in Paris situated near the Shangri-La; there, the group continued their celebrations some hours later.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
1 Dec. 2025
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Carolina Herrera's granddaughter Carolina Lansing Carolina Lansing, the 21-year-old granddaughter of legendary fashion designer Carolina Herrera, also made her debut with her younger brother, Magnus Lansing, as her cavalier.—
Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Like the swell of a wave drawn irresistibly to the shore.—
Taran Khan,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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Visitors should be cautious about going into a sea cave without a guide, as a swell can flow into it and dramatically raise the water level in a matter of seconds, pushing kayaks into rocks and leaving little air for those trapped inside.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Boron from Trona is used in solar panel glass, wind turbine blades, high strength magnets, and lithium-ion batteries.—
Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh,
Oc Register,
21 Mar. 2026
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Moving a blade back and forth to try to saw biscuits apart will make their layers stick (and ruin the rise).—
Ella Quittner,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Robin Hood and the avenging bandido Murrieta, as well as novelist Baroness Orczy’s entirely fictional Scarlet Pimpernel, the secret identity of the British popinjay who saves French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
1 Jan. 2021
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There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.—
Rebecca Keegan,
VanityFair.com,
21 Jan. 2017
Noun
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The doctor was a large, hale man, with a coxcomb of thinning red hair.—
Adam O’Fallon Price,
Harper's magazine,
10 June 2019
Cite this Entry
“Clotheshorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clotheshorse. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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