short-sleeve

short-sleeve
short-sleeve 1639, from SHORT (Cf. short) (adj.) + SLEEVE (Cf. sleeve). First recorded in an ordinance of Massachusetts Bay colony, forbidding "short sleeves, whereby the nakedness of the arme may be discovered."

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