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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying)
2: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1775 1. a frame on which to hang clothes 2. a conspicuously dressy person

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clotheshorse Clothes"horse`, n. A frame to hang clothes on.

Moby Thesaurus

Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, clubman, clubwoman, coxcomb, dandy, deb, debutante, dude, exquisite, fashion plate, fashionable, fine gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, horse, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, lady-killer, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, mondain, mondaine, puppy, sawbuck, sawhorse, socialite, spark, sport, subdeb, subdebutante, swell, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter, trestle, trestle and table, trestle board, trestle table, trestlework, trestling