sleeve|less

sleeve|less
sleeve|less «SLEEV lihs», adjective.
1. without sleeves: »

a sleeveless summer dress.

2. Archaic. futile; fruitless; useless: »

…a sleeveless errand (Shakespeare).

sleeve´less|ness, noun.

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