English

Alternative forms

• towel horse
• towelhorse

Noun

towel-horse ‎(plural towel-horses)

1. towel rack
   • 1882, Christopher Dresser, Traditional Arts and Crafts of Japan, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 9780486279923, page 80:

     At seven in the morning we rise, and on pushing aside the window-slides in front of us, we perceive that a small tub has been placed on the open balcony in front of our room, while beside this stands a large vessel of water covered with ice, and that a towel hangs from the pendent towel-horse, for Mr. Sakata has explained that we were unprepared for spending the night from home.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, C. Scribner's Sons, page 273:

     I found that old washerwoman-dress that he came home in yesterday, hanging on a towel-horse before the fire.

   • 1913, Octavia Hill, Charles Edmund Maurice, editor, Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters, London: Macmillan & Co., page 191:

     I forget whether a chest of drawers or a towel-horse was the real offender.