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half-slip

NOUN
  1. undergarment worn under a skirt

How To Use half-slip In A Sentence

  • I'm wearing a half-slip and the ivory silk blouse I had on last night. Excerpt: Bread Alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks
  • 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. Pardon Me, Your Slip Is Not Showing
  • 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. The necessary infrastructure - A Dress A Day
  • 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
  • A simple nylon half-slip is often enough to do the trick. Are Slips In?
  • 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?
  • The movies from this era were particularly moralizing: footage of girls in bras and half-slips and some super-sleazy guy, wrapped up as tales of perversion and consequence.
  • The man, half-slipping sidewise from the saddle, so as to fall clear if the mare toppled backward, threw his weight to the front and alongside her neck. Jack London's Short Story - Planchette
  • 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. Your (New) Slip Is Showing - A Dress A Day
  • Taking my elbow, she guided me around women engaged in heated discussions about the price of half-slips.
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