house-slipperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

house-slipper (複数形 house-slippers)

1. 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.

別の表記

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名詞

houseslipper (複数形 houseslippers)

1. Alternative spelling of house slipper
   • 1948, Virgil Scott, The Hickory Stick, page 88:

     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.

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

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

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

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

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

     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.

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

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

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

     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.