Definition of Clothes hanger

1. Noun. A hanger that is shaped like a person's shoulders and used to hang garments on.

Exact synonyms: Coat Hanger, Dress Hanger
Generic synonyms: Hanger
Terms within: Claw, Hook

Definition of Clothes hanger

1. Noun. A coat hanger. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clothes Hanger

clothed
clothes
clothes-brush
clothes-brushes
clothes-maiden
clothes-peg
clothes-pegs
clothes-shop
clothes basket
clothes closet
clothes designer
clothes don't make the man
clothes drier
clothes dryer
clothes hamper
clothes hanger (current term)
clothes hangers
clothes line
clothes lines
clothes maiden
clothes moth
clothes peg
clothes pegs
clothes pin
clothes shop
clothes shops
clothes tree
clothes trees
clothes valet
clothesbrush

Literary usage of Clothes hanger

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual Training for Common Schools: An Organized Course in Wood-working by Eldreth Gordon Allen, Fassett Allen Cotton (1910)
"clothes hanger and Tie Rack Problem No. 2 Make of hard or soft wood and finish to ... Each pupil should make either the clothes hanger or the tie rack. as" ..."

2. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"... another woman with one's nakedness, daring her to do the same and see who is the better endowed with attractive private parts. clothes hanger: asap(nu. ..."

3. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1919)
"Each employe has a numbered clothes hanger and a portion of a hat rack above its place on the curtain pole, as shown. The clothes are placed in the wardrobe ..."

4. The History of the World; a Survey of a Man's Record by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"... smooth stone on which to lay snow to melt for drinking-water ; a lance-head with a long band of walrus thong ; a clothes-hanger and the skin clothes of ..."

5. A Model Housing Law by Lawrence Veiller (1920)
"... such rods are provided and in many the clothes closets are built so narrow that even if a rod were provided a clothes hanger couldn.t be used on it. ..."

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