hanging sleeve

English

Noun

hanging sleeve (plural hanging sleeves)

  1. (now historical) A loose sleeve that hangs down from the arm, formerly worn particularly by children.
    • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section I:
      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.

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