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clotheshorse
noun as in fashion plate
noun as in fop
Weak matches
Example Sentences
As flattering as that pale purple may be on her, she’s much happier to let her guests’ ensembles, especially noted clotheshorse Kim, in a sweeping chiffon skirt and little white gloves, provide the fashion credentials.
Clare’s interactions with the women in her life are playful and sympathetic even as she discovers that her ethics separate her from these clotheshorses.
As a clotheshorse, he had certain natural advantages, of course.
I used to be something of a casual clotheshorse, an obsessive buyer of T-shirts, baseball caps, socks and Adidas sneakers.
Nancy Reagan famously used a surprise turn on the Gridiron stage to mock her image as a designer clotheshorse by performing “Second Hand Rose” while wearing secondhand clothes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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