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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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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
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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
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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The swell of political dissatisfaction with Starmer from many of his colleagues, and what appears to be his narrow escape from an immediate leadership challenge, provides the impetus for the government to revamp its legislative agenda.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
13 May 2026
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The curve of the land shields the coastline from a heavier swell from the Atlantic, so the water remains calm and clear for long stretches.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In March, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California completed tests on rotor designs that could be used to fly those drones, spinning the experimental helicopter blades fast enough for their tips to exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound).—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
17 May 2026
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Instead, Sydney Lohmann opted to go for goal instead of laying it off, reducing Shaw to toeing the blades of grass beneath her and pondering what might have been.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
17 May 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 19 May. 2026.
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