"clothes peg" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a small device used for attaching wet clothes to a clothesline to dry. Example: John hung his freshly washed laundry on the clothesline using clothes pegs.
A giant clothes peg in a park outside Liège, Belgium.
A wireless sensor resembling an over-sized clothes peg clips onto any piece of playground equipment.
I have no choice, therefore, but to conclude that the wooden clothes peg is bloody brilliant.
Even you, Martha: Why should shabby clothes peg you for a maid?
Half monkey, half skull, with a golden clothes peg for a nose, the creature has every reason to be angry.
Note: Vuitton also gave the humble clothes peg a fashion leg-up – corsages were held nattily to dinner jacket lapels with them.
There is likely to be a public stir when a group of young Japanese women spot their idol on parade: the Italian clothes peg Anna Dello Russo.
Another juxtaposes lists of "What should have held your attention", including an "amazing firework display lasting for hours" and "Citizen Kane", with "What did hold your attention", including a "clothes peg hanging from a piece of string" and "old carpet".
When the paint has dried, glue the middle section of each stick together to make a star shape, using the clothes peg to keep it all in place while the glue dries.
Here is the neighing horse pulling a bottlebrush cart on its clopping cork feet, and the little dog with its mouth agape and its ears back ready for oncoming encounter, fashioned from a brilliantly angled clothes peg.
RA As far as I'm aware, there are two types of wooden clothes peg: the ones with the metal-springed hinge that nans hoard in small baskets (pictured, gripping crinkly peppers), and the ones without the springs that are found on the noses of pre-war slapstick cartoon characters.
