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clothes line

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Also known as washing line, clothesline

rope stretched between two points in order to hang and dry laundry

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Drying laundry, Umag, Istria, Croatia.jpg
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Clothes lines
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Clothes lines located on the islet of Hooge in northern Germany. Clothes lines located in Tripoli in northern Lebanon. Fresco from a fullonica (laundry) in Pompeii, showing washing draped on a line without clothespins.

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