Meaning of sleeveless | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a garment, having no sleeves.
   not-comparable
2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
   not-comparable, obsolete

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Examples

“She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.”

“a sleeveless errand”

“might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.”

“1738-1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated The vexation of a sleeveless errand.”

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