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clotheshorse

noun

Definition of clotheshorsenext
as in exquisite

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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. — 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 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
  1. exquisite
  2. swell
  3. blade
  4. popinjay
  5. coxcomb
Noun
  • The move came down the Norwegian right, as Patrick Berg was fed in with an exquisite through ball.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Eileen is Hathaway perfectly in the pocket with her obsessions as a performer, melding her gifts for the exquisite and the dark while building a character who is never easy to pin down to a simple motive.
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
Definition of exquisite
Noun
  • Laguna Beach, Dana Point and Carlsbad last week declared local states of emergency, citing coastal erosion and sand loss from the effects of a south swell brought on by Hurricane Marie.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The soundtrack, the swell of the collective gasps, even the lighting at night gives it the effect of building toward something big.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of swell
Noun
  • The blade of the hatchet was about three and a half inches long, which was seemingly consistent with the size of the wounds found on Abby and Andrew Borden, per the outlet.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The meat slicer had old discolored meat residue along the blade and the blade housing.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of blade
Noun
  • 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
  • There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.
    — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 21 Jan. 2017
Definition of popinjay
Noun
  • The doctor was a large, hale man, with a coxcomb of thinning red hair.
    — Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
Definition of coxcomb

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“Clotheshorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clotheshorse. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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