Meaning of house-slipper | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“If a woman wants a velvet house-slipper such as we formerly sold at 1s. 3d. per pair, she has now to be satisfied with an inferior-wearing article for the same price, as the 1907 tariff put 6d. fixed duty on a velvet slipper, thus adding about 50 per cent.”

“It will be found amost comfortable plan to take with one a pair of house-slippers (p.176).”

“We take off the little house-slipper things they gave us and put on our shoes.”

“Billy was dressed in his black, shiny, satin-like windbreaker, with, on the back in cursive script, the words "Sweet William," in a garish yellow iridescent paint, that shined ghostly in black lights; in his new, red San Fancisco 49ers Five Time Superbowl Champions t-shirt; in a pair of faded levi 501 cutoffs that showed his knobby knees and the scars on his legs; and in the leather sole and stretchy leather lashes of wimpy house-slipper sandals.”

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