shirt sleeve

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shirt sleeve (plural shirt sleeves)

  1. The part of a shirt that covers an arm.
    • 1998, David Page Coffin, Shirtmaking: Developing Skills for Fine Sewing, →ISBN, page 51:
      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.
    • 2006, J. B. Bobo, Modern Coin Magic, →ISBN, page 99:
      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.
    • 2012, Cecil Johnson, It Just Isn't Cricket, →ISBN, page 33:
      He used to bowl slow left arm, round the wicket, and he always had his shirt sleeves loose -- flapping all over the place.

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