sleeveless

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Adjective

sleeveless (not comparable)

1. Of a garment, having no sleeves.
2. (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, V. iv. 8:

     might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.

   The vexation of a sleeveless errand. — Bishop Warburton.

Translations

• German: ärmellos
• Russian: безрука́вный

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