sleeveless
English
Alternative forms
- sleaveless
Adjective
sleeveless (not comparable)
- Of a garment, having no sleeves.
- (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, V. iv. 8:
- might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.
- The vexation of a sleeveless errand. — Bishop Warburton.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, V. iv. 8:
Translations
of a garment, having no sleeves
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