Sleeve

Picken, Mary Brooks: The Fashion Dictionary, Funk and Wagnalls, 1957. A stick is:. Oxford English Dictionary. a scroll (rolled around a stick), e.g., the Stick of Joseph from Ezekiel 37:16. In technical usage a sleeve is a tube into which another tube is inserted, which in the case of small tubes is called a thimble. Predominantly an Australian term, it refers to approximately one metric gram and is sold for twenty dollars. 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. Colloquially a unit of sale for marijuana.

Where the long hanging sleeve is worn it has, as still in China and Japan, been used as a pocket, whence has come the phrase to have up one's sleeve, to have something concealed ready to produce. A movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray. Various survivals of the early forms of sleeve are still found in the different types of academic or other robes. A type of Victorian architecture also sometimes referred to as Stick-Eastlake. The pattern of the sleeve is one of the characteristics of fashion in dress, varying in every country and period. A character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil. Dutch sloof) is that part of a garment which covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips. The Chapman Stick is a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s.

slieve, or slyf, a word allied to slip, cf. A Led Zeppelin album (see Led Zeppelin IV). Eng. The clapstick is an instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo. Sleeve (O. an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm). Two-piece sleeve, a sleeve cut in two pieces, inner and outer, to allow the sleeve to take a slight "L" shape to accommodate the natural bend at the elbow without wrinkling; used in tailored garments. stick of dynamite,.

Set-in sleeve, a sleeve sewn into an armhole (armscye). any long object, e.g. Raglan sleeve, a sleeve that extends to the neckline. stick shift transmission. Puffed or puff sleeve, a short, full sleeve gathered at the top and bottom, now most often seen on children's clothing. swagger stick) or Club (weapon),. Paned sleeve, a sleeve made in panes or panels, allowing a lining or shirt-sleeve to show through (16th and 17 centuries). hickory stick), formal attribute (e.g.

Pagoda sleeve, a wide, bell-shaped sleeve popular in the 1860s, worn over an engageante or false undersleeve. a Branch from a woody plant, also used as a rod (disciplinary implement, e.g. Juliette sleeve, a long, tight sleeve with a puff at the top, inspired by fashions of the Italian Renaissance and named after Shakespeare's tragic heroine. a group of 12 paratroopers,. Hanging sleeve, a sleeve that opens down the side or front, or at the elbow, to allow the arm to pass through (16th century). Gigot sleeve or leg of mutton sleeve, a sleeve that is extremely wide over the upper arm and narrow from the elbow to the wrist.

Dolman sleeve, a long sleeve that is very wide at the top and narrow at the wrist. Cap sleeve, a very short sleeve not extending below armpit level. Bishop sleeve, a long sleeve, fuller at the bottom than the top, and gathered into a cuff (1940s). Also known as a "magyar" sleeve.

Batwing sleeve, a long sleeve with a very deep armhole, tapering towards the wrist.