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towel-horse en · NOUN

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1. towel rack
   • I found that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire. 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, C. Scribner's Sons, page 273:
   • At seven in the morning we rise, and on pushing aside the window-slides in front of us, we perceive that a small tub has been placed on the open balcony in front of our room, while beside this stands a large vessel of water covered with ice, and that a towel hangs from the pendent towel-horse, for Mr. Sakata has explained that we were unprepared for spending the night from home. 1882, Christopher Dresser, Traditional Arts and Crafts of Japan, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 80:
   • I forget whether a chest of drawers or a towel-horse was the real offender. 1913, Octavia Hill, edited by Charles Edmund Maurice, Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters, London: Macmillan & Co., page 191:

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