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lawn sleeves, lawn-sleeves
Sleeves of lawn, considered as forming part of the episcopal dress. Hence, the dignity or office of a bishop; also, a bishop or bishops.
c1640Troutbeck in Hickeringill Priest-Cr. (1707) ii. iii. 34 That unhappy Verdict occasion'd to me the loss of 20000l. of my Uncle's..Estate Dis-inheriting me..lest any of the Lawn-Sleeves..should lay their Fingers on't. 1674Essex Papers (Camden) I. 177 Wee..find little assistance from those we might most justly expect it from (y⊇ Lawne Sleeves). 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 355 A Man of great Note For the sake of Laun-sleeves is aturning his Coat. 1730Fielding Rape upon Rape iii. v, Why, I should sooner have suspected ermine or lawn-sleeves. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 492 If they [parents] propose..divinity, they think of the lawn sleeves. 1859Thackeray Virgin. II. x. 73 My lords of the lawn sleeves have lost half their honours now. 1882Besant Revolt of Man viii. (1883) 188 The Bishop himself appeared, in lawn-sleeves and surplice.
Hence lawn-sleeved a.
1651Cleveland Poems 51 A fair blew-apron'd Priest, a Lawn-sleev'd brother. 1682O. N. tr. Boileau's Lutrin i. 162 [He] Tells them..what rude Affronters Of Laun⁓sleev'd Grandeur were these Sawcy Chanters. a1743Savage Progr. Divine Wks. 1775 II. 125 Lawn-sleev'd, and mitred, stand he now confest. |