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Recent Examples of clotheshorseApart 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
The move came down the Norwegian right, as Patrick Berg was fed in with an exquisite through ball.
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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.
It was forecast to gradually strengthen and the hurricane center warned that ocean swells generated by Fausto could cause life-threatening surf and rip tide conditions on the Baja California coast.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
22 July 2026
View gallery - 6 images A Swedish device that mimics the human heart to turn ocean swells into electricity has just cleared a hurdle that's kept wave power sidelined for decades.
This means that in an open fan, the fan blades are fully exposed to the elements.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
19 July 2026
Broken down further, a whole chuck roll can be cut into Denver steaks, chuck eye steaks, top blade steaks, and flat iron, with the remaining trim perfect for pot roast, stew, or exceptional homemade ground beef.
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.
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Washington Post,
Washington Post,
1 Jan. 2021
There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.