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pudding-sleeves

pudding-sleeves is the plural of pudding-sleeve.

Meaning of pudding-sleeve

Noun

pudding-sleeve (plural pudding-sleeves)

  1. 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

Questions about pudding-sleeves

What is pudding-sleeves the plural of?
Pudding-sleeves is the plural of pudding-sleeve.

Words near pudding-sleeves in the dictionary

  1. pudding-faced
  2. pudding-headed
  3. pudding-pipe tree
  4. pudding-pipe trees
  5. pudding-sleeve
  6. pudding-sleeves
  7. pudding-snammer
  8. pudding-snammers
  9. pudding-stone
  10. puddingheaded
  11. puddingier

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