clotheshorse

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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 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 But while a seasoned clotheshorse like Styles can make florals and flamingos look easy to pull off, a fashion movement only counts once everyday people get onboard. Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 18 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • With scenery this exquisite and a setting this peaceful, no one should mind experiencing it all over again.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • As professional golf continues to alter the game in an effort to appease players, partners and patrons, time will tell if these changes actually grow the game, which has witnessed a significant swell in amateur participation since the Covid-19 pandemic.
    Michael LoRé, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Society The Same War Karen Connelly The acquittal of the man who stood trial for the murder of Cindy Gladue inspired a swell of voices calling for change.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Cross-checks to the back of the neck, butt-ends of sticks in the ribs, stick blades in the skates, gloves in the face.
    Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Ingenuity's red planet companion, the Perseverance rover, snapped one final shot of Ingenuity, after damage to its rotor blades permanently grounded the vehicle.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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

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“Clotheshorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clotheshorse. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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