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clothes-peg

[ klohz-peg, klohthz- ]

noun

, British.
  1. a clothespin.


clothes peg

noun

  1. a small wooden or plastic clip for attaching washing to a clothesline
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clothes-peg1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

There was a plaster Joan of Arc in the hall, close to the clothes-peg.

At night he tore the cord off the blind, and, seeing nothing through his tears, began to fasten it to the hook of the clothes-peg.

One little Piskey, somewhat taller than a clothes-peg, was the best dancer there, and his laugh was the merriest.

I went to bed that night with a clothes-peg out of the yard on it, to improve its shape.

The mere notion of the passage and the clothes-peg and the umbrella-stand annihilated him.

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