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Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

architectural slip cover

"Own your own home!" a slogan so familiar in the twenties as to be almost meaningless, sometimes meant a new house in an established suburb, sometimes a house in a "development" or a "subdivision." But in those days, unlike the mass-produced housed of almost identical shape and style that we have seen rising near all the big cities in the last seven years, a home-of-one's-own meant a house different from one's neighnor's. Often the difference was merely in an architectural slip cover that went over the plan."

Please explain the blue sentence to me.

Thank you.

Cadzao
  

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Just something different on the outside: ----- slip cover noun 1 a detachable cover for a chair or sofa. 2 a jacket or slip case for a book. view=uk ----

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Just something different on the outside:

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slip cover

noun

1 a detachable cover for a chair or sofa. 2 a jacket or slip
case for a book.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/slipcover?view=uk
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Thank you very much, Marius Hancu.

Could you please explain a little bit more?

Cadzao
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A book isn't too much changed if you put a slip cover on it, isn't it?
It's just something superficial, on the surface.

Same with a house which would be painted differently from your neighbour's, but would have the same plan/design.
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Thank you again for the helpful explanation, Marius Hancu.

Cadzao
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