leg-o'-mutton
- a variation of leg-of-mutton.
Example Sentences
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The ballooning sleeves were a variation on the leg-o’-mutton style common during the Tudor period.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2016
The next number she tried on had the silhouette of a Victorian morning dress, with leg-o’-mutton sleeves and a prim collar.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon there were quite a few small boats: some mere chips on the waves, with three or four rowing men, some bigger ones, holding a dozen men and driven by leg-o'-mutton sails.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a picture of Sissy taken twenty years ago—Sissy with a towering crimped pompadour and huge leg-o’-mutton sleeves—Sissy, sixteen years old.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
