clothes-pegs

The frivolous creatures who spend their lives in trying on cashmeres, or make themselves into clothes-pegs to hang the fashions from, exact the devotion which is not theirs to give; for them, love means the pleasure of ruling and not of obeying.

The Magic Skin 2007

I have also hung string across the ceiling of the playroom and I hang work from this with clothes-pegs.

The Gallagher Guide To The Baby Years Stephanie Gallagher 2004

A clutter of papers, a couple of clothes-pegs, a toffee rather past its best, three safety pins and a thimble, and that was all.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

A clutter of papers, a couple of clothes-pegs, a toffee rather past its best, three safety pins and a thimble, and that was all.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

This activity can be made easier by fixing two clothes-pegs onto each other.

Chapter 4 1993

The apartment was fitted with a stove, benches, clothes-pegs, and curtains; and adjoining the salle de douches, or shower-bath room, was fitted up a salle de coiffure.

The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various

This, with an artistic idea of effect, the monkey poured liberally, not only over the sermon and other papers that lay on the table, but on the reverend gentleman's sheets as well, Jocko probably thinking a black colour would be more suitable and in keeping with the clerical garments that hung from some clothes-pegs adjacent.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

But it's more change still when we go nearer to Epping Forest in summer-time, and live out there in the country in a covered wan and a tent or two, and learn to plait baskets out of osiers, and to cane chairs, and to make straw plait and all manner o 'things, and only cut clothes-pegs at odd times.

Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Stratford -- it's a close bad-smellin 'sort of a little place is our lane, and we're pretty often hard at it by candle-light, or else lamplight, making up baskets and clothes-pegs and things ready for the trade in the summer.

Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Dora got the cookery-book out of the dresser drawer, where it lay doubled up among clothes-pegs, dirty dusters, scallop shells, string, penny novelettes, and the dining-room corkscrew.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925