shirt-sleeves

English

Noun

shirt-sleeves

  1. plural of shirt-sleeve
  2. Alternative form of shirt sleeves
    • 2016, Abhijit Bagchi, The Early T. S. Eliot: An Artist in the Making, →ISBN:
      As Sherma S. Vinograd points out that we move from “Arms that are braceleted and white and bare” near the table and shawl to the narrow streets inhabited by “lonely men in shirt-sleaves."
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