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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clotheshorse
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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).—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Even as the contestants arrive to begin the season, an important rowing portion of today's marooning challenge remains up in the air due to tumultuous swells.—
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Per Sē contrasts the delightfully retro, lipstick-y aroma of orris butter with a fresh, fizzing swell of aldehydes, pink pepper, and bamboo.—
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Nikola Tesla’s bladeless turbine design relies on viscous drag rather than traditional blades to generate rotational motion.—
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According to cops, the pair each time surrounded their target, usually displayed a blade and then demanded the victim’s property, including winter coats, sneakers and other valuables.—
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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.—
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There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.—
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The doctor was a large, hale man, with a coxcomb of thinning red hair.—
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“Clotheshorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clotheshorse. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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