pudding sleeve

English

Noun

pudding sleeve (plural pudding sleeves)

1. A full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown.
   • 1766, George Colman & David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, Act iii, Scene 1.

     Sterl. Ah, Sir John! Here we are—hard at it—paving the road to matrimony—We'll have no jolts; all upon the nail, as eaſy as the new pavement.—Firſt the lawyers, then comes the doctor—Let us but diſpatch the long-robe, we ſhall ſoon ſet Pudding-ſleeves to work, I warrant you.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pudding sleeve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)