house-slipper
English edit
Noun edit
house-slipper (plural house-slippers)
- Alternative form of house slipper
- 1912, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, page 238:
- 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.
- 2005, Lawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway, Andrew Tolson, Cultural Studies: Volume 4 - Issue 2, →ISBN:
- It will be found amost comfortable plan to take with one a pair of house-slippers (p.176).
- 2006, Carolyn Parkhurst, Lost and Found: A Novel, →ISBN:
- We take off the little house-slipper things they gave us and put on our shoes.
- 2014, Zahn Pesh, The Duology, →ISBN:
- 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.