houseslipper

plural houseslippers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of house slipper.

   In the houseslipper section at Fourth Street no employees are permanently assigned.

   1957, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

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   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.

   1948, Virgil Scott, The Hickory Stick, page 88

   One day I witnessed our kitten bravely stalk and kill one of my most amenable, non-threatening houseslippers.

   1987, Susan Lenzkes, A silver pen for cloudy days, →ISBN, page 38

   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.

   1994, American Diplomatic and Consular Service, State, page 4

   The shoe is going to drop any minute. When it did, it felt more like a fuzzy houseslipper than a heavy boot.

   2000, Cynthia Yates, Brenda's Gift: A Novel, →ISBN, page 315

   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.

   2009, Jennifer Crane, Coopers Crossing, →ISBN, page 256