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Definition of Clothes hamper
1. Noun. A hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clothes Hamper
Literary usage of Clothes hamper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Housewifery: A Manual and Text Book of Practical Housekeeping by Lydia Ray Balderston (1921)
"Bowls enamel 2 qts. enamel 6 qts. large for starching Brushes fringe scrubbing
spotting Case knife Cheesecloth Clothes-basket Clothes-hamper Clothes-horse ..."
2. Readers' Theater Grade 3 by Evan-Moor (DST), Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Barbara Linde, Lynn McClain (2003)
"Narrator 1: As Chuck reaches into the clothes hamper, he feels a tug on his arm.
Suddenly, he is pulled into the hamper! He falls deeper and deeper into the ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... dropping bedding and clothing into a great clothes-hamper, and, later, gathered
from the pantry and cellar shelves, fruit, bread, butter, hams, bacon, ..."
4. History of Colorado by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)
"... he made his escape and hid in the house of a friend, taking refuge in a clothes
hamper in a closet, over which a number of clothes were hanging. ..."
5. From Kitchen to Garret by Virginia Terhune Van de Water (1910)
"And what impressed me as the greatest triumph of all, the soiled-clothes hamper
had vanished, and its contents had been transferred to bureau-drawers. ..."
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