raglan sleeve

1. 1.

   a sleeve that extends in one piece to the neckline of a coat or sweater with seams from the armhole to the neck

   Broadersleeve

   Part ofraglan

Questions about raglan sleeve

What does raglan sleeve mean?

raglan sleeve means "a sleeve that extends in one piece to the neckline of a coat or sweater with seams from the armhole to the neck".

Is raglan sleeve a common word?

raglan sleeve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.