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What (who) is sleeve - definition

PART OF CLOTHING THAT COVERS THE ARMS
Sleeve (clothing); Sleeves; Butterfly sleeve; Batwing sleeves; Short sleeve; Angel sleeves; Cap sleeve; Dolman sleeve; Fitted point sleeve; Leg o'mutton sleeve; Leg-of-mutton sleeve; Pagoda sleeve; Puff sleeve; False sleeve; Kimono sleeve; Pouf sleeve; Lantern sleeve; Long sleeve; Set-in sleeve; Set-in sleeves; Wizard's sleeve
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  • Actress [[Mabel Love]] in an outfit with leg-o'-mutton (gigot) sleeves in 1919
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sleeve         
n.
1) to roll up one's sleeves
2) (misc.) to have smt. up one's sleeve ('to have a secret'); to roll up one's sleeves and get down to work ('to get down to serious work')
sleeve         
¦ noun
1. the part of a garment that wholly or partly covers a person's arm.
2. a protective paper or cardboard cover for a record.
a protective or connecting tube fitting over a rod, spindle, or smaller tube.
3. a windsock.
a drogue towed by an aircraft.
Phrases
up one's sleeve kept secret and in reserve for use when needed.
Derivatives
sleeved adjective
sleeveless adjective
Origin
OE slefe, slief(e), sly?f.
sleeve         
(sleeves)
1.
The sleeves of a coat, shirt, or other item of clothing are the parts that cover your arms.
His sleeves were rolled up to his elbows...
He wore a black band on the left sleeve of his jacket.
N-COUNT
2.
A record sleeve is the stiff envelope in which a record is kept. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use jacket
)
There are to be no pictures of him on the sleeve of the new record.
N-COUNT: usu N of n, n N
3.
If you have something up your sleeve, you have an idea or plan which you have not told anyone about. You can also say that someone has an ace, card, or trick up their sleeve.
He wondered what Shearson had up his sleeve...
PHRASE: N inflects

Wikipedia

Sleeve

A sleeve (Old English: slīef, a word allied to slip, cf. Dutch sloof) is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips.

The sleeve is a characteristic of fashion seen in almost every country and time period, across a myriad of styles of dress. Styles vary from close-fitting to the arm, to relatively unfitted and wide sleeves, some with extremely wide cuffs. Long, hanging sleeves have been used variously as a type of pocket, from which the phrase "to have up one's sleeve" (to have something concealed ready to produce) comes. There are many other proverbial and metaphorical expressions associated with the sleeve, such as "to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve", and "to laugh in one's sleeve".

Early Western medieval sleeves were cut straight, and underarm triangle-shaped gussets were used to provide ease of movement. In the 14th century, the rounded sleeve cap was invented, allowing a more fitted sleeve to be inserted, with ease around the sleeve head and a wider cut at the back allowing for wider movement. Throughout the 19th century and particularly during the Victorian era in Western culture, the sleeves on women's dress at times became extremely wide, rounded or otherwise gathered and 'puffy', necessitating the need for sleeve supports worn inside a garment to support the shape of the sleeve. Various early styles of Western sleeve are still found in types of academic dress or other robes, such as ecumenical dress.

Sleeve length varies in modern times from barely over the shoulder (cap sleeve) to floor-length (as seen in the Japanese furisode). Most contemporary shirt sleeves end somewhere between the mid-upper arm and the wrist.

Examples of use of sleeve
1. "I have designed a clothing line that has what‘s called a ‘dining sleeve.‘ The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another ‘dining sleeve,‘ after usage.
2. QUESTION÷ How about a surprise trip to North Korea? Is that something you might have up your sleeve? Or she might have up her sleeve?
3. QUESTION:В How about a surprise trip to North Korea?В Is that something you might have up your sleeve?В Or she might have up her sleeve?
4. Pepper" sleeve and cost nearly $1 million to produce.
5. He wore his emotions on his sleeve," his mother said.