[UNDER-1 5 a.] A sleeve, esp. one of light material, worn below another.
1547. in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 10. Longe garmentes of playne clothe of Syluer,… thupper & nether Baces & thunder sleves of clothe of golde. Ibid. (1560), Revels Q. Eliz. (1903), 21. Undersleves of Damaske Bawdekyn.
1631. A. Townshend, Alb. Triumph, 13. The Labells of the sleeues,… the vnder sleeues.
1861. Archaeologia, XXXIX. 250. The under-sleeve is grey puffed with white.
1893. Georgiana Hill, Hist. Eng. Dress, II. 257. Fastening on with elastic or tape those uncomfortable undersleeves.
