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slippered, ppl. a.|ˈslɪpəd|
[f. slipper n.]
1. a. Wearing or shod with slippers.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 158 The sixt age shifts Into the leane and slipper'd Pantaloone. 1837Dickens Pickw. xv, Tom sat with his slippered feet on the fender. 1879Sala Paris herself again (1880) I. xv. 228 Her poor old slippered legs disappeared in the darkness.
b. fig. Lit. and poet.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick II. xvii. 136 The slippered waves whispered together. 1912R. Brooke Coll. Poems (1970) 68 A vague unpunctual star, A slippered Hesper.
2. Associated or connected with the wearing of slippers.
a1817R. L. Edgeworth in Life (1826) II. 419 By the assistance and solace afforded to him in his slippered decrepitude. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics xiii. iii. (1860) II. 268 He leaned back in his arm-chair enjoying slippered ease. 1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 431/1 They heard the colonel's slippered tread.
3. Retarded by means of a slipper-brake.
1905J. B. Firth Highw. & Byeways Derby. 380 A road where the slippered wheels..have dug great trenches. |