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- noun Alternative spelling of
coat rack .
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Examples
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If we see Tapper guest spotting on Don Imus's Fox Business News morning program and getting the complete leathery-tongue love-on from the coat-rack cowboy, we'll know something is afoot.
Tarzan No Understand Words White House Say: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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If we see Tapper guest spotting on Don Imus's Fox Business News morning program and getting the complete leathery-tongue love-on from the coat-rack cowboy, we'll know something is afoot.
James Wolcott's Blog Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Nicholson calls this ˜the coat-rack view™ of gender: our sexed bodies are like coat racks and “provide the site upon which gender [is] constructed” (1994, 81).
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Mikkola, Mari 2008
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Gender conceived of as masculinity and femininity is superimposed upon the ˜coat-rack™ of sex as each society imposes on sexed bodies their cultural conceptions of how males and females should behave.
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Mikkola, Mari 2008
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You know, the critics in the '60s fell all over themselves praising Jean Luc-Godard and Francois Truffaut for "reinventing" the pulp noir story by using the genre as a coat-rack for exisential musings, but "The Killers" goes them one better, in my opinion.
From Fred Blosser Ed Gorman 2007
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You know, the critics in the '60s fell all over themselves praising Jean Luc-Godard and Francois Truffaut for "reinventing" the pulp noir story by using the genre as a coat-rack for exisential musings, but "The Killers" goes them one better, in my opinion.
Archive 2007-05-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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But as he hangs his jacket on the hand-carved coat-rack and rushes toward the wooden stall in back, he doesn't see us.
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I copied his arrangement, and then was shown my hook on the coat-rack, and the shelf in the room allotted for my books.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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Her eyes darted to her holster on the coat-rack just inside the kitchen.
Lifeguard Patterson, James 2005
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Paul turned around, twisted one of the handles on the double doors, pulling it open, the moonlight through the big open window spilling into the ante-room, with its chairs, its coat-rack, and its secret.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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