An upright wooden frame standing upon legs, with horizontal bars on which clothes are hung out to dry or air.
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), XIX. xviii. 229. You look like a clothes-horse with a great-coat stretched out upon it, just ready for the rattan.
1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Hackney-coach Stands (D.). We keep no horse but a clothes-horse.
1883. J. Hawthorne, Dust, I. 60. Wringing out a towel and spreading it out on the clothes-horse to dry.
