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shirt sleeve en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The part of a shirt that covers an arm.
   • But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes. 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter VIII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1951, →OCLC, book III (Casualties: 1925), page 153:
   • He used to bowl slow left arm, round the wicket, and he always had his shirt sleeves loose – flapping all over the place. 2012, Cecil Johnson, It Just Isn’t Cricket, →ISBN, page 33:
   • By far the most important fitting issue for sleeves, whether for a woman's shirt or a man's, is length, and that's probably the only part of the shirt sleeve that's bothered you if it wasn't right. 1998, David Page Coffin, Shirtmaking: Developing Skills for Fine Sewing, →ISBN, page 51:
   • There are certain types of sleeving that are difficult to perform with the shirt sleeves down, and it is difficult and risky to attempt sleeving while wearing a shirt with "French" cuffs. 2006, J. B. Bobo, Modern Coin Magic, →ISBN, page 99:

Forms

Translations (3)

da skjorteærme (the part of a shirt that covers the arm) · de Hemdsärmel (the part of a shirt that covers the arm) · pdt Hamdsmeiw (the part of a shirt that covers the arm)