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  • noun Alternative spelling of coat stand.

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Examples

  • No need to see the faded green wallpaper, the tired carpet, the half-moon telephone table, and the coat-stand in the hallway.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • His new front room had been made homely with a modern painting of Oscar Wilde, a coat-stand holding his motorcycle crash helmet, an electronic piano plus a hefty oak table decorated with a house warming gift from his parents.

    Breakfast with Stephen Fry 2012

  • I think of my main story as like a big, solid coat-stand. the bottom is the beginning, the top is the end and everything else is in between.

    Archive 2007-07-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • I think of my main story as like a big, solid coat-stand. the bottom is the beginning, the top is the end and everything else is in between.

    Tony Jordan: "Television is my Priory" DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • I hang other stuff on it, like you hang coats on a coat-stand.

    Tony Jordan: "Television is my Priory" DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • I hang other stuff on it, like you hang coats on a coat-stand.

    Archive 2007-07-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • She led the way through a hall cluttered with a laden coat-stand, — there was a flying jacket hanging on it — and into a pleasant sitting-room.

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • There was not time to get out of the door, so I hid behind the coat-stand — I was there for some time while the police came.

    The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

  • ‘There was blood on the wall behind the coat-stand, Cellini,’ he said slowly.

    The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

  • A white yachting cap was hanging on the coat-stand, next to an ivory-handled riding-crop.

    Maigret meets a Milord Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1931

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