🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

burro de ropa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: burro de ropa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Garment rack/ˈɡɑːr.mənt ræk/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #28500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Colgó todos los vestidos en el burro de ropa."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A freestanding framework or stand equipped with a horizontal bar designed for hanging clothes on hangers.

    "She organized her winter coats neatly on the metal garment rack in the spare bedroom."
  2. 2

    A mobile retail fixture used in clothing stores to display merchandise to shoppers.

    "The boutique assistant wheeled a garment rack loaded with new dresses onto the sales floor."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'garment', derived from Old North French 'garniment' meaning equipment or outfit, and 'rack', stemming from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German words relating to a framework or shelf. It emerged into common English usage during the industrial and retail expansion of the 19th and 20th centuries to describe standardized movable structures designed for hanging clothes.

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