coat-tree

Updated: July 11, 2026

Then she came with her companions to a sort of parlour with a polished floor, not large and rather vacant, where her attention flew delightedly to a coat-tree, in a corner, from which three or four dresses were suspended dresses she immediately perceived to be costumes in that night's play accompanied by a saucer of something and a much-worn powder-puff casually left on a sofa.

Henry James - The Tragic Muse