Meaning of shirt-sleeve | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance⟳ some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!”

“But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk⟳ there, or stand⟳ there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like⟳ a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut⟳ exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like⟳ a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand⟳ in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes.”

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