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clothespress

[ klohz-pres, klohthz- ]

noun

  1. a receptacle for clothes, clothes, as a chest, wardrobe, or closet.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clothespress1

First recorded in 1705–15; clothes + press 1

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Example Sentences

Outside the clothespress, on a peg, hangs a linsey-woolsey every-day gown that shows marks of wear.

Then crossing, she opened the bathroom door, and then the clothespress, calling Rosanna's name sharply.

Hartwick shut himself in the clothespress, and I could hear him laughing and gasping for breath.

Along one side of the wall a clothespress, which the combined wardrobes of two did not fill.

There is a clothespress in the corner, into which Mr. Spear says we may look.

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