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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A fitted protective or decorative cover that may be slipped off and on a piece of upholstered furniture, usually made of cloth.
WordNet
n. a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture
Wikipedia
A slipcover (also called loose cover) is a fitted protective cover that may be slipped off and on a piece of upholstered furniture. Slipcovers are usually made of cloth. Slipcovers slip on and off, they come fresh, and may be removed for seasonal change, cleaning, moving, or storage.
Slipcovers are sometimes defined as "clothing for furniture." Indeed, they are tailored just as clothing is, and are fitted loosely or snugly to the taste of the owner or tailor. Some people order furniture upholstered in plain muslin with the intention of using slipcovers only.
A slipcover is a protective cover that fits over upholstered furniture.
Slipcover may also refer to:
- Slipcover (architecture), a modification of an older building facing by adding a new ornamental layer
- Slipcase, a box into which books, videos, or audio media are stored
In architecture, a slipcover is a modification of an older building facing by adding a new ornamental layer.
The slipcover was a popular treatment in the United States after World War II as early twentieth-century building styles had fallen out of fashion. Constructing a slipcover with a contemporary design over an existing building was a less expensive alternative to tearing down and building anew. Sometimes attachments of the slipcover caused damage to the original facings. At other times, slipcovers have protected the original facings from deterioration.
Usage examples of "slipcover".
She had little furniture, although all good stuff that had probably been begged from various relatives a John Widdicombe gateleg table with two chairs, a comfortable-looking slipcovered sofa, some reading lamps on mismatched tables, a pair of mahogany bookshelves packed tight with books, a Tabriz rug on the floor.
Over a warm Indian summer weekend, my father and dishonored grandfather carried furniture outside for the yard sale, the sea-foam-green sofa and armchairs, which still looked brand-new beneath plastic slipcovers, the kitchen table, the bookcases.
Lampshades and slipcovers and the cushions on the dining room chairseverything is to be brushed or washed or measured for replacement.
You could see if one of the mills near you needed someone to make drapes and slipcovers and that sort of thing.
The pillows were plumped on the bright and cheery blue slipcovers of the sofa, and the old coffee table she'd antiqued was free of dust and held a trio of bottles filled with late-summer daisies snipped from her own little flower bed.
Rosemary noted and commented on everything: the white linen slipcovers on the sofas, the mauve and turquoise tints of the lake as the sun sank, the tall oak candlestick on the porch, the moose head and crosscut saw over the mantel.
Over it Crystal had asserted her own taste: assorted shabby Oriental carpets laid together like pieces of a puzzle, sagging upholstered furniture slipcovered with faded chintz.
It was the sort of room that he might have expected if he'd sat down first to consider her character: she had taken it ambitiously in hand, as she would Luis if he lived, and she had painted and slipcovered and decorated until it looked like one of those magazine photo stories captioned "Turning-an-Attic-Room-into-an-Apartment.
A wing chair slipcovered in a floral print stood on the opposite side of the room near the window.
On a slipcovered couch under a highway on-ramp, he killed her, very quietly.