house-slipper

plural house-slippers

1. alternativeAlternative form of house slipper.

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

   2006, Carolyn Parkhurst, Lost and Found: A Novel, →ISBN

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   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.

   1912, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, page 238

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

   2005, Lawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway, Andrew Tolson, Cultural Studies: Volume 4 - Issue 2, →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.

   2014, Zahn Pesh, The Duology, →ISBN