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
  • According to court documents, Manuel Hernandez, the tour boat captain, made a U-turn and a swell swamped the bow, capsizing the boat with 14 people on board.
    — Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Even Ava, the most overtly rage-baity of the bunch, took a weeklong break from social media after receiving a swell of hate messages.
    — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of swell
Noun
  • The grass will go dormant and the leaf blades will turn brown, but the crown and roots will remain alive, and the lawn will green up 1 to 2 weeks after significant rain.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Frequently asked questions Grass doesn’t last forever, and as individual blades die off from age, disease, pets, and everyday wear, your lawn will gradually thin out if there are no new seeds to replace them.
    — Amanda Tust, Architectural Digest, 7 Aug. 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 14 Aug. 2026.

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