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What is the noun for clotheshorse?

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cloth
  1. (uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
  2. (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  3. (metaphoric) Substance or essence; The whole of something complex.
  4. (metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
  5. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
  6. (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “These reversible bonnets are made from quality cloth.”
      “The nurse took a wet cloth and began to clean the blood from around his leg.”
      “Bishop Wilberforce was another man of the cloth to meet an unfortunate fate.”
clothing
  1. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
  2. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
  3. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
  4. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Paradoxically, tailored clothing just does not fit me well.”
cladding
  1. (rare) Clothing; clothes.
  2. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
  3. (construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The timber cladding on the outside is untreated and has taken on a bleached, silvery color as it has weathered.”
clotheshorse
  1. A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.
  2. (by extension) A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “What if you couldn't get a clotheshorse to run in a potato-race?”
      “A clotheshorse fell on the horse's back and off he started on a dead run, and that wuz the end of poor Jinnie.”
      “The global media transformed Diana Spencer, a flighty but enormously photogenic English clotheshorse married to the future British king, into a virtual demi-goddess.”
cladder
  1. (construction) One who applies cladding, or insulation.
clotheswoman
  1. (historical) A woman who sells old clothes.
clothedness
  1. The state or condition of wearing clothes
clothescare
  1. The care and maintenance of clothing.
clothmaking
  1. The art or trade of a clothmaker.
clothback
  1. A book bound in cloth.
clothesman
  1. Someone who sells clothes
clothmaker
  1. A person who makes cloth.
clothes
  1. (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  2. (obsolete) plural of cloth.
  3. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Her normally sleek auburn hair was frizzy and knotted and her clothes were wrinkled from a night of restless sleep.”
clotheswomen
  1. plural of clotheswoman
clotheshorses
clotheses
  1. (childish) Alternative form of clothes
clothesmen
  1. plural of clothesman
clothmakers
  1. plural of clothmaker
clothbacks
  1. plural of clothback
claddings
clothings
cladders
  1. plural of cladder
cloths
  1. plural of cloth
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Two of the most prestigious silk cloths are also woven on looms fitted with a flying shuttle.”
      “An women in ragged cloths with one dirty infant in her arms approaches my car which stopped at a red light in Shahbag.”
      “Steam puddings with dried fruit or jam for flavouring were boiled in basins with cloths tied over the top.”
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