coat tree
- noun
- /koʊt tri/
- US
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perchero
- Jody grabbed her jacket off the coat tree in the mud room and picked up the coffee can full of the worms she'd collected the night before.
Examples
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In winter, the coat tree holds our coats, scarves, hats, and lunch pails.
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The night he got mugged, Alan Lowe had stolen his manager Mr. Dugan's long, hide-colored trench coat, which had been thoughtlessly left on the coat tree outside Dugan's office.
Fiction book (1994) -
"She flung the coat toward a coat tree and walked past me.
Fiction book (1994) -
She grabbed an old white sweater off the coat tree beside the back door.
Fiction book (2000) -
He takes off his jacket and hangs it on a coat tree by the door.
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Vega tossed his jacket back on the coat tree and scooped it up.
Synonyms
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A shaped piece of wood, plastic or metal that holds clothes in a closet
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A frame like human shoulders for hanging coats to keep their shape
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A stand with hooks for hanging coats and hats
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A stand with hooks for hanging coats and hats near the door
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A piece of furniture with a tall pole and hooks for hanging coats
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A frame shaped like human shoulders for hanging clothes to keep them neat
A standing pole with hooks for hanging coats and hats
A frame for hanging clothes to dry or to display them
How Tall
Surface Forms
Morphology
coat + tree
This is a compositional compound where 'coat' (the item to be hung) plus 'tree' (a branching, upright object) yields a straightforward metaphorical name for a stand with hooks for coats. The meaning is directly inferable from the constituents and the common cross-linguistic metaphor of a 'tree' for a branched stand, so a B1 learner who knows the words will understand it.
Etymology
Coat tree comes from its shape: a tall stand with hooks like branches where people hang coats like leaves on a tree. So today coat tree means 'a stand for hanging coats and hats'.