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what's the meaning of "on the line" in this sentence?

 
 
Reply Fri 17 Feb, 2012 09:10 pm
The children played barefoot in the courtyard, running in between
the cottons drying on the line and reaching for each other’s hair, their
untidy dresses smeared with the grubby marks of childhood freedom.
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Reply Fri 17 Feb, 2012 09:39 pm
@kkfengdao,
"The line" is a clothes line. It would be a rope or cable stretched between two posts. You hang clothes on the clothes line outdoors to dry the clothes
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2012 01:22 am
@roger,
http://craftypeople.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/washing-line.jpg
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Reply Sat 18 Feb, 2012 01:29 am
@contrex,
I believe those to be professional clothes. That, or there's a circus in town.
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