pudding-sleeve
pudding-sleeve noun: a large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown.
Noun
pudding-sleeve (plural pudding-sleeves)
- A large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown.
- His grazier's coat fall dovvn his heels: / He ſees, yet hardly can believe, / About each arm a pudding-ſleeve; / His vvaistcoat to a caſſock grevv / And both aſſum'd a ſable hue1708, [Jonathan Swift], “(please specify the page)”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC
- Ah, Sir John! Here we are—hard at it—paving the road to matrimony—VVe'll have no jolts; all upon the nail, as eaſy as the nevv pavement.—Firſt the lavvyers, then comes the doctor—Let us but diſpatch the long-robe, vve ſhall ſoon ſet Pudding-ſleeves to vvork, I vvarrant you.1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act...
Forms of pudding-sleeve
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Questions about pudding-sleeve
- What does pudding-sleeve mean?
- Pudding-sleeve means a large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown.
- What part of speech is pudding-sleeve?
- Pudding-sleeve is a noun.
- What is the plural of pudding-sleeve?
- The plural of pudding-sleeve is pudding-sleeves.
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