Slipper
['slɪpə] or ['slɪpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, slips.
(n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
(n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
(n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
(n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
(a.) Slippery.
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To dream of slippers, warns you that you are about to perform an unfortunate alliance or intrigue. You are likely to find favor with a married person which will result in trouble, if not scandal. To dream that your slippers are much admired, foretells that you will be involved in a flirtation, which will suggest disgrace.
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Examples
- The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oh, if you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- What a road he has travelled; and sits now, about half-past seven of the clock, stewing in slipper-bath; sore afflicted; ill of Revolution Fever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I may be the Cinderella to put on the slipper after all. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- You will find tobacco in the Persian slipper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She threw a slipper at the retreating figure of the girl, who turned, smiled, and went on again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My slippers were thin: I could walk the matted floor as softly as a cat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His slippers, too, were gone, but his boots were left behind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He had his slippers on, and a loose bed-gown, and his throat was bare for his greater ease. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Get me my rubbers, and put these slippers with our things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Rising a little later his bare feet find a comfortable footing on a machine-made rug, until thrust into full fashioned hose, and ensconced in a pair of machine-sewed slippers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Before I had finished it, the Duke of Leinster was announced, and I went down to him in my dressing-gown and slippers. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had lit his pipe and held his slippered feet to the cheerful blaze of the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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