coat-rack

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  Excerpt: Zero Game by Brad Meltzer

• “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

• “Her eyes darted to her holster on the coat-rack just inside the kitchen.”

  Lifeguard

• “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

• “I made haste to deposit the parcel on the shelf of the coat-rack and reached the door just before the women.”

  A Monstrous Regiment of Women

• “I shut the door and lifted a tan raincoat from the coat-rack.”

  Prayers To Broken Stones

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