bishop sleeve
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bishop sleeve (plural bishop sleeves)
- A long sleeve, fuller at the bottom than the top, and gathered into a cuff; formerly worn by women.
- 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), pages 280–281:
- Her hands […] succeed in flaunting the fashionable tight cuffs of her bishop sleeves.