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  • adjective Not slippered.

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Examples

  • The lady stands in the centre of the stage, and rests her unslippered foot on a small box, while the knight of the lapstone and hammer is engaged in taking the measure of her foot.

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • He was still seated on the edge of his bed, his unslippered feet resting on the thick woollen carpet.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • He was still seated on the edge of his bed, his unslippered feet resting on the thick woollen carpet.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • Flora wheeled and flared, but caught herself, musingly crossed the room, returned half-way, and with frank design resumed the stool warily vacated by the unslippered foot; whose owner was mincing on, just enough fluttered to play defiance while shifting her attack --

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • Beside the parlor lamp, where, with one tiny foot covertly unslippered for the easement of angry corns, Madame sat embroidering, Kincaid broke the seal and read.

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • Mary, in a transient spasm of backing, had fallen to the rear; the young man could no longer see the girl, but ever before his eyes was the piteous, unslippered little foot with its arched instep.

    The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

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