house-slipper
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It will be found amost comfortable plan to take with one a pair of house-slippers (p.176)."
- "We take off the little house-slipper things they gave us and put on our shoes."
- "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."