Meaning of Armhole | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A human armpit.
   Midlands, archaic, dialectal
2. Similar structures in other animals.
   obsolete, rare
3. A hole for an arm in a piece of clothing.

Equivalents

Examples

“An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places, þat is to say⟳, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.”

“Put⟳ these ragges and cloutes vnder thine arme holes.”

“Armhole is a variant on armpit in the west and east Midlands.”

“He... violently pull'd off her Riding-Hood, and tore it at the Arm Holes in pulling it off.”

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