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clothes horse

[klohz-hawrs, klohthz-]

clothes·horse

[klohz-hawrs, klohthz-]
noun
1.
Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
2.
a frame on which to hang wet laundry for drying.

Origin:
1765–75; clothes + horse
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Clothes horse is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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clotheshorse definition

[ˈklozhors]
  1. n.
    someone who is obsessed with clothing and looking good in it. : Her brother is the real clotheshorse.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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