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The first known use of this word in print, in this sense, was in [[1775]].
'''Clotheshorse''' also refers to a person dressed in a conspicuous and showy way.
By [[1850]] this figurative sense of the word was in common use, appearing in the writings [[Thomas Carlyle]] amongst others, who wrote of "''idlers, game-preservers, and mere human clothes-horses''" (''[[Latter Day Pamphlets]]'', No. III. ''DOWNING STREET'', [[April 1]], [[1850]]).
The intended implication of this usage was that the person's main function was simply to wear clothes, and that he or she had no other use.
A person who has so many clothes that she cannot wear most of them in a year. New Usage, January 2006, Conselkroy.
[[Category:Laundry]]
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