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hanging sleeves

hanging sleeves is the plural of hanging sleeve.

Meaning of hanging sleeve

Noun

hanging sleeve (plural hanging sleeves)

  1. (historical) A 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

Questions about hanging sleeves

What is hanging sleeves the plural of?
Hanging sleeves is the plural of hanging sleeve.

Words near hanging sleeves in the dictionary

  1. Hanging Rock
  2. hanging round
  3. hanging side
  4. hanging sides
  5. hanging sleeve
  6. hanging sleeves
  7. hanging stile
  8. hanging stiles
  9. hanging ten
  10. hanging the moon
  11. hanging to

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