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  • noun Plural form of coathook.

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Examples

  • First, last night we moved the coathooks in the hall and painted the first section of it Brilliant White, using the paint leftover from the dining room ages ago.

    We've been busy ailbhe 2008

  • In every classroom the coathooks were bolted onto the wall, then painted over, then painted over again.

    sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2001

  • But I'll also bet the coathooks don't even have a single coat of paint on them yet.

    sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2001

  • She had felt a short second of relief when she saw Sarah's jackets on the coathooks last night, and a photograph of her and Parlabane on the wall (in which they wore, rather curiously, matching Elastoplasts on their cheeks).

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Nothing back there except a lot of brass coathooks in a line on the wall and a long rubber mat on the floor for boots.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • He could move the mitten and sit in the corner under the coathooks.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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