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Webster 1913 Edition


Scye

Scye

(sī)
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Noun.
Arm scye, a cutter’s term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garment.
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scye

scye

English

Noun

scye (plural scyes)

  1. An armhole (or, occasionally, a leghole) in tailoring and dressmaking.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      on the seat lay folded a pair of blue cotton pants creased at the groin, their short fly zippered open, and over them a white underbrief, the sinus of its pouch humped between elliptical scyes.

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