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n. - A cord on which garments are hung to dry.

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Usage examples (37)
  • More telling about age than her reference to a clothesline is her use of the word “drawers.”
  • I know having a clothesline is very old-fashioned, but I love mine.
  • Paint the outside camo/cornfield color and stuff cornstalks in clothesline that is stapled around the outside.
  • And it wasn't even that I was looking at it, because we were in the kitchen and you can't even see the clothesline from the kitchen.
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