What if you couldn't get a clotheshorse to run in a potato-race?
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
He was older than she, and was a better scholar and brought to her less of the clotheshorse and more of the man than her freshly outgrown lover.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
I need something to hang things on in front of the fire, a clotheshorse-come along-" I stayed behind, thinking: "If only it lasts, if only it lasts!
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun