balloon sleeve

noun

1. a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder

Example Sentences

Within hours of episode nine airing last week, the red balloon sleeve jumper that Winkleman wore sold out in every size.

From BBC

Leather was dominant, worked into balloon sleeve dresses, trousers paired with tank tops, belted coats and cowboy boots.

From Reuters

By having your wits about you, you can win your way through a thronged street without touching even the extreme circumference of a balloon sleeve; and, if each one strove to avoid all contact, it would be easily accomplished.”

From Project Gutenberg

The great desire for variety is displayed in the forms of sleeve for this tunic: you may have the ordinary balloon sleeve ending in a stuff roll or fur edge for cuff, or you may have a half-sleeve, very wide indeed, like shoulder-capes, and terminated in the same manner as the bottom of the tunics—that is, fur-edged tunic, fur-edged sleeve, and so on, as described; under this shows the tight sleeve of an undergarment, the collar of which shows above the tunic collar at the neck.

From Project Gutenberg

A balloon sleeve, now, would be more sensible; you could slip it over the helmet, and it would look like—like the shade of a piano lamp.

From Project Gutenberg