CLOTHESHORSE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

clotheshorse

noun

Definition of clotheshorse

as in exquisite

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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 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

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Noun

The move came down the Norwegian right, as Patrick Berg was fed in with an exquisite through ball.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Eileen is Hathaway perfectly in the pocket with her obsessions as a performer, melding her gifts for the exquisite and the dark while building a character who is never easy to pin down to a simple motive.

— Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026

Definition of exquisite

Noun

But Yates' story didn't elicit the same swell of empathy as Lindsay Clancy's has today.

— Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Like a massive ocean swell, which can bear all kinds of flotsam and jetsam ashore, a political wave that is big enough, broad enough and strong enough can carry all manner of unlikely candidates to victory.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of swell

Noun

Many of the blades made late in the war were rushed through production, and many slipped through that were too brittle or too soft.

— David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
Single-crystal turbine blades remove the grain boundaries found inside ordinary metals.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of blade

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

Definition of popinjay

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