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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown..
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
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.
Use pudding-sleeve when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pudding-sleeve means A large bulging sleeve, like that of the English clergy's gown..
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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
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