Meaning of shirt-sleeves | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park⟳ beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end⟳ of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay⟳ there in shirt-sleeves, talking.”

“In shirt-sleeves, the way I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board⟳.”

“As Sherma S. Vinograd points out that we move⟳ from “Arms that are braceleted and white and bare” near the table and shawl to the narrow streets inhabited by “lonely men in shirt-sleaves."^([sic])”

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