pipe-rack

[ pahyp-rak ]

/ ˈpaɪpˌræk /

offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.

Origin of pipe-rack

First recorded in 1945–50

pipe rack

a usually wheeled rack of metal piping on which to hang clothing, as in a store.

a small rack, usually of wood, for holding a smoker's pipes.

On Stan's armchair, near his pipe-rack, was her hat, and her clothing lay in a heap where she had stepped out of it.

A Crooked Mile |Oliver Onions
Reaching the mantel-piece, he took a pipe from the pipe-rack and some tobacco from the jar that stood behind the books.

The Masquerader |Katherine Cecil Thurston
"No," replied Vandover with a long breath, looking vaguely at the pipe-rack on the opposite wall.

Vandover and the Brute |Frank Norris
There they are now, hanging over the pipe-rack by the fireplace in my snuggery in dear old England.

Adventures in Many Lands |Various

Once more I was in Sloane Square; there was my desk with its litter of papers, my pipe-rack, my books….

The Blower of Bubbles |Arthur Beverley Baxter