sleeveless
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Alternative forms
- sleaveless
Etymology
From Middle English slevelees, sleveles, from Old English slīeflēas (“sleeveless”), equivalent to sleeve + -less.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
sleeveless (not comparable)
- Of a garment, having no sleeves.
- (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], line 8:
- 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.
Translations
of a garment, having no sleeves
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