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[ noun ] a cord on which clothes are hung to dry

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

From above one could only occasionally catch_a_glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea : a neighbor 's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor , or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there , half-way down the block .

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