Shirt-sleeves

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of shirt-sleeve form-of, plural
  2. 2
    Alternative form of shirt sleeves. alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only

    "A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking."

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"A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking."

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