hanging sleeve
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hanging sleeve (plural hanging sleeves)
- (now historical) A loose sleeve that hangs down from the arm, formerly worn particularly by children.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section I:
- the uncontroul'd, Termagant Spirit, which has been since so conspicuously display'd, was visibly perceiv'd in the little Vixen when but in Hanging-Sleeves, she being even at those callow Years, haughty and impatient of Contradiction.