hunt the slipper

British  

noun

1. a children's game in which the players look for a hidden slipper or other object, such as a thimble ( hunt the thimble )

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hunt the slipper

Just fancy, if you can, Professor Faraday playing "petits jeux," or Wollaston engaged at "hunt the slipper."

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

Hot cockles succeeded next, questions and commands followed that, and last of all, they sate down to hunt the slipper.

From The Vicar of Wakefield by Goldsmith, Oliver

"Oh, yes! that's right; let's play at hunt the slipper," cried all the youngest, clapping their hands and jumping up and down.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. by Peters, Charles

Boys and girls played hide and seek, blind man's buff, hunt the slipper, etc.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

She sent for her grandchildren, and blind man's buff, hunt the slipper and other games were played until ten o'clock, when Her Majesty went to bed.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth