sleeved, ppl. a.
(sliːvd)
Also 5 slevid, 6 slieved, sleued, Sc. slewit.
[f. sleeve v. or n. Cf. OE. ᵹesléfed.]
a. Fitted or provided with sleeves; having sleeves of a certain kind.
See also long-, short-sleeved, etc.
| a 1500 Chron. London (1905) 202 Which said ladyes rode vpon..white palfrays in gownys of white Satyn slevid. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle of Facions i. iv. 48 Longe garmentes downe to the foote, slieved, and close rounde about. 1570 Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1367/1 Then I put on him a sleued coate of mine. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 11 Jan. 1682, With leather socks.., a rich scymeter, and large calico sleeved shirts. 1823 Southey Lett. (1856) III. 386 A sleeved waistcoat of washing-leather. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xiv. 163 The same composition is repeated upon the sleeved jupon of the Earl. 1880 [A. J. Munby] Dorothy iii. 1895 In her russet-grey frock,..Sleeved to the wrists, of course. |
b. Fitted or covered with a sleeve or sleeves (in sense 7 of the n.).
| 1905 Engineering Rev. XIII. 272/1 The Hyatt bearing has..been successfully applied to sleeved axles, both in small cars and heavy 'buses and lorries. 1970 ‘S. Harvester’ Moscow Road i. 13 A stereophonic phonograph and two racks of sleeved discs. 1976 Gramophone June 51/3 The pressing is beautifully smooth, and the disc is attractively sleeved; the cover is a water colour of the composer by his son. |