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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. Thoutbeck in HickerinEjill Priest-Cr. (1707) 11. iii. 34 That unhappy Verdict occasion'd to me the loss of my Uncle's..Estate Dis-inheriting me. .lest any of the Lawn-Sleeves .. should lay their Fingers on't. 1674 Essex Papers (Camden) I. 177 Wee .. find Tittle assistance from those we might most justly expect it from iy* Lawne Sleeves). 17x0 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 355 A Man of great Note For the sake of Laun-sleeves is aturning his Coat. 1730 Fielding Rape ufon Rape in. v, Why, I should sooner have suspected ermine or lawn-sleeves. 176874 Tucker Lt. AW. (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. 188a Besant Revolt 0/ Man viu. (1883) 188 The Bishop himself appeared, in lawn-sleeves and surplice. Hence Lawn-sleeved a.

1651 Cleveland Poems 51 A fair Llew-apron'd Priest, a Lawn-sleev'd brother. x68a O. N. tr. Boileaus Lutrin

I. 162 [Hel Tells them..what rude Affronters Of Launsleev'd Grandeur were these Sawcy Chanters, a 1743. Savage Progr. Dit>ine'Wk<i. 1775 II. 125 Lawn-sleev'd, and mitred, stand he now confest.