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Meaning of houseslipper | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Alternative spelling of house slipper.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“The houses had been on Langley, McKinley, Allen, Twelfth, Eleventh, and Tenth, and sometimes the woman who answered the bell was fat and many-chinned and dressed in a dirty apron and run-over felt houseslippers, and sometimes she was thin and bony-chinned and dressed in a dirty apron and run-over felt houseslippers.”
“In the houseslipper section at Fourth Street no employees are permanently assigned.”
“One day I witnessed our kitten bravely stalk and kill one of my most amenable, non-threatening houseslippers.”
“One game I play is to take an object my son likes to play with, like a houseslipper, and hide it underneath three or four towels.”
“The shoe is going to drop any minute. When it did, it felt more like a fuzzy houseslipper than a heavy boot.”
“From the tangled pile of ugliness snarled on the bed, Sherry gleefully pulled a pair of Mrs. Smith's support hose, a pink houseslipper and a brown penny loafer, a black hairnet and a purple cameo choker, a bottle of cheap eau de cologne called Evening in Paris, and a red-orange lipstick.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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