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Shirtsleeves

noun
1.
Not wearing a jacket.  "In hot weather they dined in their shirtsleeves"





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"Shirtsleeves" Quotes from Famous Books



... shirtsleeves. His blond hair was cropped unbecomingly close. Lydia did not see that the head this disclosed was more finely shaped than either of her friends. He was grinning as he came toward ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... house, conspicuous for the delicacy of its architecture, stood near them, and a young man—the schoolmaster—who was on the verandah, reading, in his shirtsleeves, threw down his newspaper at the call of Zotique, came forward and entered eloquently into the work of information about the Reveilliere, flinging his cotton-clad arms recklessly towards the winds ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair
... harvest-hand, in straw hat and shirtsleeves, presently appeared. He grinned when he saw me, and the thick snub of his nose would have seemed like a sneer ...
— Who Was She? - From "The Atlantic Monthly" for September, 1874 • Bayard Taylor
... interested. But when her imagination tracked him to the dusty town, to the house where drawn blinds and pale shrouds, where a caretaker and a kitchenmaid were alone in possession, it wasn't to see him, in his shirtsleeves, unpacking battered boxes. ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James


Words linked to "Shirtsleeves" :   dishabille, deshabille


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