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Sleeve

noun

The part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm. Synonym: arm.

Small case into which an object fits.

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"Sleeve" Quotes from Famous Books

... Her mother held her sleeve and looked up, smiling. Lady Coryston's smiles were scarcely less formidable than ...

— The Coryston Family • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... accept it. At first he seemed willing enough, but after holding a consultation with the Courtier for five minutes, he reluctantly put it back again. As he went along, he took samples of every thing that he could easily put into his sleeve, which served him instead of a sack; so that when he came upon deck, he was pretty well loaded, and looked about with the satisfaction of a school-boy, on having visited a show for the ...

— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall

... will cost you twice as much: Alas! alas! we are every day worse and worse, and grow like a cows tail, downward: And why all this? We have a clerk of the market not worth three figgs, and values more the getting of a doit himself, than any of our lives: 'Tis this makes him laugh in his sleeve; for he gets more money in a day than many an honest man's whole estate: I know not how he got the estate he has; but if we had any thing of men about us, he would not hug himself as he does, but now the people are grown to this pass, that ...

— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter

... which all the way they went pull'd Veritas by the sleeve, one by one and the other by the other, but shee would not ...

— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson

... back with the basin, the doctor had already ripped up the captain's sleeve and exposed his great sinewy arm. It was tattooed in several places. "Here's luck," "A fair wind," and "Billy Bones his fancy," were very neatly and clearly executed on the forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch ...

— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson

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