bishop sleeve

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bishop sleeve (plural bishop sleeves)

  1. A long sleeve, fuller at the bottom than the top, and gathered into a cuff; formerly worn by women.
    • 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), pages 280–281:
      Her hands […] succeed in flaunting the fashionable tight cuffs of her bishop sleeves.
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