slipperedadj.
/ˈslɪpəd/ 1.
a. Wearing or shod with slippers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > wearing slippers or loose shoes
slipshod1580
slippereda1616
slip-shoed1702
slipper-slopper1825
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 158 The sixt age shifts Into the leane and slipper'd Pantaloone. View more context for this quotation
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xiv. 138 Tom sat with his slippered feet on the fender.
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again I. xv. 228 Her poor old slippered legs disappeared in the darkness.
b. figurative. literary and poetic.
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lix. 308 The slippered waves whispered together.
1912 R. Brooke in Basileon June 3 A vague unpunctual star, A slippered Hesper.
2. Associated or connected with the wearing of slippers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing footwear > wearing shoes > wearing slippers or loose shoes > associated or connected with
slippereda1817
a1817 R. L. Edgeworth in Life (1826) II. 419 By the assistance and solace afforded to him in his slippered decrepitude.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. xiii. iii. 268 He leaned back in his arm-chair enjoying slippered ease.
1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 431/1 They heard the colonel's slippered tread.
3. Retarded by means of a slipper-brake.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [adjective] > having no or spec. type of brake
brakeless1880
slippered1905
1905 J. B. Firth Highways & Byways in Derbyshire 380 A road where the slippered wheels..have dug great trenches.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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