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A skeleton that volunteered to hold your burdens instead of haunting your dreams.
means A standing or wall-mounted frame fitted with hooks or pegs for hanging coats, hats, and other garments.
from A plain English compound, simply 'coat' plus 'rack.' 'Coat' came into Middle English from Old French 'cote,' a tunic or outer garment, with deeper roots in a Frankish word for a coarse woolen cloth. 'Rack' is the older, grittier half — likely from a Germanic source (compare Middle Dutch 'rec,' a framework or shelf) tied to the idea of something stretched or framed out, the same family that gives us the torture device. So a coatrack is, etymologically, a frame on which your garments are stretched out to wait.
- hidden hoarder
- Becomes a one-armed wardrobe within a week
- physics flex
- Tips over the instant it earns its keep
- old name
- Victorians called the freestanding ones hall trees
- chair betrayal
- Most people use a chair instead anyway
gustav klimt's coat rack — ornate wooden piece designed by the austrian artist in 1899, displayed at secession building vienna