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short-sleeve

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short-sleeve 
1639, from short (adj.) + sleeve. First recorded in an ordinance of Massachusetts Bay colony, forbidding "short sleeves, whereby the nakedness of the arme may be discovered."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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