Shirt-sleeve

Synonyms for "shirt-sleeve"

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He had a shirt-sleeve style of management.

Source: wiktionary

The Exploration Cooling Garment shall allow a crewmember to maintain their nominal shirt-sleeve range of motion.

Source: wiktionary

Not one of those rustic wassals of the Ouse of Widdlers, but ad his air curled and his shirt-sleaves tied up with pink ribbing as he led to the macy dance some appy country gal, with a black velvit boddice and a redd or yaller petticoat, a hormylu cross on her neck, and a silver harrow in her air!

Source: wiktionary

But Dick's necessity of behaving as he did was a projection of some submerged reality: he was compelled to walk there, or stand there, his shirt-sleeve fitting his wrist and his coat sleeve encasing his shirt-sleeve like a sleeve valve, his collar moulded plastically to his neck, his red hair cut exactly, his hand holding his small briefcase like a dandy—just as another man once found it necessary to stand in front of a church in Ferrara, in sackcloth and ashes.

Source: wiktionary

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