pudding-sleeve

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English

Noun

pudding-sleeve (plural pudding-sleeves)

  1. A large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown.
    • 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “(please specify the page)”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. , London: H. Hills, , published 1709, →OCLC:
      His grazier's coat fall dovvn his heels: / He ſees, yet hardly can believe, / About each arm a pudding-ſleeve;⁠ / His vvaistcoat to a caſſock grevv / And both aſſum'd a ſable hue
    • 1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. , London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, ; R Baldwin, ; R. Davis, ; and T Davies, , →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 42:
      Ah, Sir John! Here we are—hard at it—paving the road to matrimony—VVe'll have no jolts; all upon the nail, as eaſy as the nevv pavement.—Firſt the lavvyers, then comes the doctor—Let us but diſpatch the long-robe, vve ſhall ſoon ſet Pudding-ſleeves to vvork, I vvarrant you.

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