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Webster 1913 Edition
Scye
Scye
(sī)
, 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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Definition 2024
scye
scye
English
Noun
scye (plural scyes)
- 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.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: