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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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The songs on our best-of list represent some of the year’s most notable artists (along with a few exquisite below-the-surface players).—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
13 Dec. 2024
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This year, Carol Kane — the chimeric renaissance woman, eternal ingenue, muse to visionaries from Sidney Lumet to Cindy Sherman — rose from the rubble, a mirage made real, in Nathan Silver's exquisite Between the Temples.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
22 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The event kicked off with an opening dance, before the debutantes lined up for a waltz with their fathers, who were then passed onto their cavaliers for dancing with a live band.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
1 Dec. 2024
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Opal is described as a 5-pound red/brown cavapoo — a mix of a King Charles cavalier and a poodle.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 2024
Noun
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CMEs in particular are linked to swells of high-energy particles that can damage satellites, disrupt communications, and endanger astronauts.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Sep. 2025
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But before the construction of a harbor in the mid-1960s altered the surroundings, the spot was a surfer's paradise, with easy, consistent swells.—
Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Use the bypass pruning shears, which also have a handy safety locking mechanism that protects your hands from the blades when not in use, to deadhead plants accordingly.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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The can opener mounted on the prep table had a dirty blade, an employee touched food with his bare hands and there was no thermometer for checking internal food temperature.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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 11 Sep. 2025.
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