1. frames or racks used for drying or airing clothes
2. people who are excessively concerned with fashionable clothing
Usage: informal

Examples

• She set up several clotheshorses in the laundry room to dry the delicate items.
• The wooden clotheshorses were folded and stored in the closet when not in use.
• My grandmother always used clotheshorses instead of the dryer for her good linens.
• Those two are such clotheshorses, always shopping for the latest designer outfits.
• The apartment came with a small balcony perfect for placing clotheshorses outside.
• He called his fashion-obsessed friends clotheshorses because they spent hours getting dressed.