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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SLEEVE (O. Eng. slieve, slyf, a word allied to " slip," cf. Dutch sloof, See also:apron)  , that See also:part of a garment which covers the See also:arm, or through which the arm passes or slips . The See also:pattern of the See also:sleeve is one of the characteristics of See also:fashion in See also:dress, varying in every See also:country and See also:period . Various survivals of the See also:early forms of sleeve are still found in the different types of See also:academic or other See also:robes (q.v.) . Where the See also:long See also:hanging sleeve is worn it has, as still in See also:China and See also:Japan, been used as a See also:pocket, whence has come the phrase " to have up one's sleeve," to have something concealed ready to produce . There are many other proverbial and metaphorical expressions associated with the sleeve, such as "to See also:wear one's See also:heart upon one's sleeve," " to laugh in one's sleeve," &c . In technical usage a " sleeve " is a tubeinto which another See also:tube is inserted, which in the See also:case of small tubes is called a See also:thimble .

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