[...] slippers [...]
(Not sure how well slippers translates into West Pondian but
lightweight house shoes...)
That's roughly what my (North American) eye read it as; I think that,
at least in that usage, it's one of those words that doesn't need
translation when it crosses the Atlantic.
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