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Sandal vs Slippers - What's the difference?

sandal | slippers |

As nouns the difference between sandal and slippers

is that sandal is sandal while slippers is .

sandal

English

(wikipedia sandal)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sandale, from (etyl) sandalium, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
  • sandalwood
  • * Tennyson
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal , amber, ancient rosaries
    Hyponyms
    * flip-flop, jandal, thong

    Etymology 2

    From ; see it for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)sandalwood
  • * Tennyson
    • And on the tables every clime and age / Jumbled together: celts and calumets, / Claymore and snow-shoe, toys in lava, fans / Of sandal , amber, ancient rosaries

    slippers

    English

    Noun

    (head)