shirt-sleeves

See also: shirt sleeves and shirtsleeves

English

Noun

shirt-sleeves

1. plural of shirt-sleeve

Noun

shirt-sleeves pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of shirt sleeves
   • 1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Torestin”, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 1:

     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.

   • 1970, Jack Finney, chapter 1, in Time and Again, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 7:

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

   • 2016, Abhijit Bagchi, The Early T. S. Eliot: An Artist in the Making, →ISBN:

     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]

Anagrams

• silver-sheets, silver sheets