Sentence examples for clotheshorse from inspiring English sources

Pandora hears that the lanky, car-loving clotheshorse has just bought shares in two nags in readiness for the flat season.

He was a country boy, a clotheshorse, a Xhosa chauvinist.

"A woman can't be too perfect," she says, and reminds us that she, a notorious clotheshorse, was particularly aggressive in her quest for perfection — shopping being an acceptable form of female aggression.

A few minutes after he left, I passed Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer and a famously enthusiastic clotheshorse, in the corridor.

Blass liked to think that his work spoke to a free spirit, a woman with her own identity, not a "clotheshorse".

(At one point, he refers to Beerbohm as "a clotheshorse," although no term could be more ill suited to a writer whose dandyism is so subtly and purposefully differentiated from the dandyism of an Oscar Wilde or a Reggie Turner, not to mention a Beau Brummel).

I was not persuaded, however, that the look in whole or in part was intended as an apotheosis of the President: warhorse as clotheshorse.

The enormous change in Edna's life came partly because a clotheshorse friend who wanted to take a course in millinery design persuaded her to come along to evening classes at Montclair State Teachers College.

But how could the fantasy of a sumptuous fashion windfall not appeal to a fanatic clotheshorse living on the cheap in Paris?

Beware the classic 1990s example of the exercise-bike-cum-clotheshorse.

Romantic, anachronistic (part Glinda the Good Witch, part Scarlett O'Hara), her hyperfeminine manner set her apart from the steely, modern chic of royal relatives like Marina, Duchess of Kent, and her clotheshorse-in-law, the Duchess of Windsor.