sleeveless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English slevelees, sleveles, from Old English slīeflēas (“sleeveless”), equivalent to sleeve + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a garment, having no sleeves.
She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.
1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 25:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
a sleeveless errand
might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], line 8:1738-1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sleaveless | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (27)
it senza maniche (of a garment, having no sleeves) · nn ermelaus (of a garment, having no sleeves) · ang slīeflēas (of a garment, having no sleeves) · ru безрука́вный (of a garment, having no sleeves) · yue 冇袖 (of a garment, having no sleeves) · el αμάνικος (of a garment, having no sleeves) · nb ermeløs (of a garment, having no sleeves) · es sin mangas (of a garment, having no sleeves) · nl mouwloos (of a garment, having no sleeves) · ca sense mànigues (of a garment, having no sleeves) · fi hihaton (of a garment, having no sleeves) · hu ujjatlan (of a garment, having no sleeves) · izh hiatoin (of a garment, having no sleeves) · fa رکابی (of a garment, having no sleeves) · ko 민소매 (of a garment, having no sleeves) · uk безрука́вний (of a garment, having no sleeves) · ga gan mhuinchillí (of a garment, having no sleeves) · hy անթեւ (of a garment, having no sleeves) · bg безръкавен (of a garment, having no sleeves) · bg без ръкави (of a garment, having no sleeves) · ko 나시 (of a garment, having no sleeves) · be безрука́ўны (of a garment, having no sleeves) · uk безрука́вий (of a garment, having no sleeves) · cy dilewys (of a garment, having no sleeves) · de ärmellos (of a garment, having no sleeves) · sv ärmlös (of a garment, having no sleeves) · fr sans manches (of a garment, having no sleeves)