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  • Clothes hung to his coat-tree like figure, shoes always seeming to be too large for his feet.

    The Cactus 2010

  • Then she came with her companions to a sort of parlour with a polished floor, not large and rather vacant, where her attention flew delightedly to a coat-tree, in a corner, from which three or four dresses were suspended -- dresses she immediately perceived to be costumes in that night's play -- accompanied by a saucer of something and a much-worn powder-puff casually left on a sofa.

    The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

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