"house-slipper" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: house-slippers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} house-slipper (plural house-slippers)
  1. Alternative form of house slipper Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: house slipper
    Sense id: en-house-slipper-en-noun-bxSViVIR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1912, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, page 238",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006, Carolyn Parkhurst, Lost and Found: A Novel",
          "text": "We take off the little house-slipper things they gave us and put on our shoes.",
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          "ref": "2014, Zahn Pesh, The Duology",
          "text": "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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