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slip-cover

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A temporary covering, commonly of linen or calico, used to protect upholstered furniture.

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Examples

  • About the DVD to be released May 5th: Last Chance Harvey comes in a two-disc set with a nice slip-cover.

    Buzzine » Last Chance Harvey 2009

  • Yes, you get some extra crap and a slip-cover, but $75?

    Archive 2005-09-01 Tripp 2005

  • We could clearly see pits cutting into pits, with stratigraphy so complicated that we tried out our plastic slip-cover method of recording yet again to copy all the various events.

    Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - The Elite Cemetery: Week 5 2002

  • Everything had aired since morning, so she disguised the couch again in its slip-cover, put the cretonne covers back on the pillows, and the couch stood decorous and daytime-like again.

    I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • The array of gustatory swords, each in flannelet slip-cover.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Believe me, the world has fallen too long for these worn-out countries that aren't producing anything but bootblacks and scenery and booze, that haven't got one bathroom per hundred people, and that don't know a loose-leaf ledger from a slip-cover; and it's just about time for some Zenithite to get his back up and holler for a show-down!

    Babbitt 1922

  • Believe me, the world has fallen too long for these worn-out countries that aren’t producing anything but bootblacks and scenery and booze, that haven’t got one bathroom per hundred people, and that don’t know a loose-leaf ledger from a slip-cover; and it’s just about time for some Zenithite to get his back up and holler for a show-down!

    Chapter 14 1922

  • Believe me, the world has fallen too long for these worn-out countries that aren't producing anything but bootblacks and scenery and booze, that haven't got one bathroom per hundred people, and that don't know a loose-leaf ledger from a slip-cover; and it's just about time for some Zenithite to get his back up and holler for a show-down!

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • As the slip-cover came off and revealed the red and green and purple design, Polly glanced at Sary to see the effect made.

    Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • Slide out the slip-cover to reveal a red box with plastic cover within.

    TOYSREVIL 2010

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