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sleever

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From sleeve + -er.

noun sleevers

A person employed to fit sleeves to garments. In May 1946 she received a post card to report for work with the Respondent as a sleever. When she applied Superintendent Honig asked her if she was not a trimmer, and when she responded in the affirmative he told her that they had no work for her.
A vertical bar, elliptical in cross section and tapered towards the end, used to shape the sleeve of a garment.
in compounds A garment having sleeves of the specified kind. The gravy stain on Ken's J .C. Penney short-sleever drew a lot of attention, like a fly on a wedding cake.

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@misc{sleever_2026,
  title = {sleever},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sleever},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}