Definition of Pillow slip

1. Noun. Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow. "The burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"

Exact synonyms: Case, Pillowcase, Slip
Generic synonyms: Bed Linen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillow Slip

pillory
pillorying
pillow
pillow-biters
pillow-top
pillow block
pillow case
pillow cases
pillow fight
pillow fights
pillow lace
pillow lava
pillow lavas
pillow sham
pillow slip (current term)
pillowbeer
pillowbeers
pillowcase
pillowcases
pillowed
pillowing
pillowless
pillowlike
pillows
pillowslip
pillowslips
pillowtop

Literary usage of Pillow slip

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoir of Thomas Thomson, Advocate by Cosmo Innes (1854)
"... of even the modern language of Scotland, (of which he has nevertheless taken upon him to publish a glossary,) as to say that a ' cod' is a pillow-slip, ..."

2. Publications by Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"... of even the modern language of Scotland, (of which he has nevertheless taken upon him to publish a glossary,) as to say that a ' cod' is a pillow-slip, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"There was a piece of muslin or pillow slip or something of that kind pulled down over its head and wrapped around the neck two or three times with a shoe ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"The landlady proposed to fetch a sheet and a pillow-slip, and then she added, ... The pillow-slip was trimmed in like manner ; and when the bed was made up ..."

5. A Glossary of the Essex Dialect by Richard Stephen Charnock (1880)
"Pillow-bier and pillow-slip are used in New England for pillow-case. ... PILLOW-SLIP, a pillow-ease. See Pillow-beer. PIN-PATCHES, periwinkles. ..."

6. Annotated Cases, American and English: Containing the Important Cases by Harry Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney (1917)
"Examined the pillow slip on the morning of the 28th, there was stain of blood. Exhibit 10 is pillow slip." Porche had testified that he had gone to ..."

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