hanging sleeve

noun

A loose sleeve that hangs down from the arm, formerly worn particularly by children.

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Meanings

nounhanging sleeve (plural hanging sleeves)

plural hanging sleeves

  1. historicalA loose sleeve that hangs down from the arm, formerly worn particularly by children.

    the uncontroul'd, Termagant Spirit, which has been since so conspicuously display'd, was visibly perceiv'd in the little Vixen when but in Hanging-Sleeves, she being even at those callow Years, haughty and impatient of Contradiction.

    1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section I
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Chicago

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