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means A stand or wall-mounted fixture with hooks or pegs for hanging coats, hats, and other outerwear.
from A plain compound of two old words. "Coat" came into English from Old French "cote," meaning a tunic or outer garment, itself from a Germanic source. "Rack" is the trickier half: it likely traces to a Middle Low German or Middle Dutch word "rek," meaning a framework or shelf, related to the idea of something stretched or extended (a cousin of the verb to "reach"). Put them together and you have exactly what it says — a frame to reach your coat onto.
- origin
- Shaker pegs predate hangers by over a century
- physics
- a leaning rack obeys the same toppling rule as towers
- design
- the bentwood hall tree was patented in 1849
- chaos
- statistically becomes a chair within one week of purchase
shaker coat rack — wooden pegboard design from 18th-century shaker communities, still produced identically today
knoll rch-1 coat rack — florence knoll's 1950s modernist design, produced by knoll furniture company since 1952