Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman's skirtlike undergarment that hangs from the waist.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun undergarment worn under a skirt
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Examples
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You can made a petticoat by finding the waist marking on the pattern and making a half-slip with a casing for elastic, or you can cut the front and back of the dress and make a full length one, turning under the neckline and armholes twice at one fourth inch each time.
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Worse yet, these efforts are most commonly met with a coldly-written half-slip of paper sent back in your own SASE.
Lucinda Week, Day 5: How Many Rejections DID Lucinda Get? 2009
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A lame question about making slips: The only time I've ever made myself a slip, I drew up a "pattern" hardly deserves the word, really for a half-slip and sewed it up out of cotton and lace.
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My favorite half-slip is one I made many years ago from a remnant piece of Duchesse satin and some cotton lace.
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There's no room for a crinoline under that, unless you wanted to construct some kind of half-crinoline/half-slip undergarment.
Fashion Sewing on A Budget ... and the Walk-Away Dress! - A Dress A Day 2008
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Angelina Jolie wore a sturdy bra and half-slip in the 2005 film "Mr. & Mr.. Smith" -- in a scene depicting the fastidiously uncarnal nature of her life with Mr. Smith.
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A simple nylon half-slip is often enough to do the trick.
Are Slips In? 2007
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I have one "half-slip," which actually started out life as one of those teeny short silk skirts for women who are a lot younger than I am.
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I'm wearing a half-slip and the ivory silk blouse I had on last night.
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Next comes a long cotton hip wrap, like a half-slip, then a pair of long bloomers to preserve modesty should the front fold of the kimono open.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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