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shirtsleeve
/ ˈʃɜːtˌsliːv /
noun
- the sleeve of a shirt
- in one's shirtsleevesin one's shirtsleeves not wearing a jacket
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Beard obliged by tearing off a piece of his tattered shirtsleeve and jotting down the ingredients.
Slipping up a soiled, ragged shirtsleeve, he showed me an ugly scar above the elbow, reaching to the shoulder.
She laid one hand on his skinny forearm below the rolled-back shirtsleeve.
The man wiped the tears from his eyes with his shirtsleeve, smearing the red brick dust with which it was powdered, over his face.
Miss Eyester flipped a bit of plaster from his shirtsleeve with her thumb and finger.
Own wife, the coat does not crock the shirtsleeve in the least—so thy labor in lining it would have been thrown away.
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