Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An outer covering or case for a pillow; a pillow-case.
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Examples
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Amelia, her eyes sparkling through the holes in the pillow-slip, held Nan and the prisoner back.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr
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There was a busy time for a few minutes as the girls dressed Amelia in an old pillow-slip with eye-holes burned in it, and placed in her hand the staff of a broom, over the brush-end of which was drawn another bag, on which, in charcoal, Grace Mason deftly drew a very wise looking owl in outline.
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr
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"That ought to finish your trap, Lub, I should think," said Phil, who was almost ready to climb into his bunk, having removed most of his clothing, and arranged his sleeping quarters in a jiffy; he too had a small pillow-slip filled with some of the hay, upon which he expected to rest his head comfortably.
Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge Silas K. Boone
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To supply this needed power, take a small bag of cotton cloth, like a little pillow-slip, of just the size to cover the patient's whole back.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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The bed had not been slept in; the sheets were not even disarranged, but there was a scrap of paper pinned to one pillow-slip.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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Head tucked in the pillow, she apparently was lost in thought, for her brown eyes, slightly narrowed, stared vacantly at the frilling of the pillow-slip.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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"How touching that is!" said one of the hotel ladies, and Mrs. Sims was seen to wipe her eyes with the pillow-slip she was seaming.
A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett
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The pillow-slip was still damp with Paul's tears and his fevered anguish of the night, and as she drew it off to replace it with a fresh one the thought came to her, for the first time in her life:
The Mother 1928
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Then suddenly she felt horribly guilty in even entertaining such thoughts, and quickly drawing on the fresh pillow-slip she went away into her own room.
The Mother 1928
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Of course the patient must wear a night-cap or in some other way protect the pillow-slip.
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