She carried the dress down the stairs and hung it on the airer.

She hung both their coats on Mrs Gibbons' airer while the landlady put ham and potatoes on the table.

The name derives from Old Gaelic airer Goídel (border region of the Gaels).

A Sheila Maid, sometimes Sheila's Maid, is the British name for a ceiling mounted clothes and laundry airer.

However, the word airer naturally carries the meaning of the word 'coast' when applied to maritime regions, so the placename can also be translated as "Coast of [the] Gaels".

In turn Woolf suggests that this gave rise to the terms Airer Gaedel and Innse Gall, respectively "the coast of the Gaels" and the "Islands of the foreigners".

The Annals of Ulster report that "Sitriuc, grandson of Ímar, landed with his fleet at Cenn Fuait on the border [airiur, airer] of Leinster."

The room was spacious, with two large windows and a cast-iron fireplace which was obviously used, for log baskets stood either side of it and an airer hung with bell-bottomed trousers and thick navy-blue sweaters swung above it.

The distinction between the Innse Gall (islands of the foreigners) and the Airer Goidel (coastland of the Gael) is further suggestive of a distinction between island and mainland at an early date.

A clotheshorse or clothes horse, sometimes called a clothes rack, drying horse, clothes maiden, drying rack, drying stand, airer, or (Scots) winterdyke, refers to a frame upon which clothes are hung after washing to enable them to dry.

And a clothes horse, so she had it in her lounge.

There is plenty of room to work around it in safety and no clothes horse to fall over!

I am not a clothes horse, much less a shirt freak.

In the natural world, he said, the clothes horse of the species is invariably the male.

I think, put the clothes horse out for now.

The name clothes horse was in use by 1800.

Having always been a clothes horse, I offered to take her shopping for new shoes.

She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse.

"Now I'm a clothes horse in cartoon land," she said.

But back to our male clothes horses: Whiskers are also in style.

They are about the woman, not the clothes horse."

Are you an animal lover but a clothes horse?

And not being a clothes horse didn't stop me from becoming senior vice president for the Americas.

She is a bit of a clothes horse.

He looked a bit like a clothes horse, or the gentleman holding a glass of liquor in the ads.

I knew him mostly as a clothes horse and grand master of fashion."

She had the fire on too, but it was hidden by a clothes horse, draped in wet washing.

Willie Brown is a famous clothes horse, a man known to be late for meetings because of last-minute wardrobe changes.

I'll never be a clothes horse or romantic symbol."

I.e. more than a clothes horse for a red carpet.

Looks more like a clothes horse to me.'

That's how the male clothes horses look: sultry sullen.

Transforming a card-carrying clothes horse into an environmentalist sister will be no easy task.

They would even dry quicker than if you put them over the clothes horse cos that's what those slats are for.