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raglan

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a loose overcoat or topcoat with sleeves that continue in one piece to the collar, so that there are no seams at the shoulder

Origin of raglan

after Lord Raglan (1788-1855), British commander in chief in the Crimean War

designating or of such a sleeve, or having such sleeves

raglan

adjective

Having or being a sleeve that extends in one piece to the neckline of the garment, with slanted seams from the armhole to the neck.

noun

A garment, such as an overcoat or a sweater, that has raglan sleeves.

Origin of raglan

After Fitzroy James Henry Somerset (1788–1855), First Baron Raglan, British field marshal.

raglan

raglan

raglan

Adjective

(not comparable)

(Of a sleeve) Continuing in one piece up to the neck of a garment, without a shoulder seam.
(Of a garment) Having sleeves of this type.

Noun

(plural raglans)

An overcoat with sleeves of this type.

Origin

Named after Lord Raglan (1788-1855), a British commander in the Crimean War.

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This is a Grecian building (1785), with a richly ornamented ceiling and inlaid altarpavement; it also contains much fine sculpture in the memorials to former dukes, and is the burial-place of Field Marshal Lord Raglan, who was the youngest son of the 5th duke of Beaufort.
Raglan Castle, near Monmouth, now a beautiful ruin, was the seat of the earls and the ist marquess of Worcester, until it was besieged by the Parliamentarians in 1646, and after its capitulation was dismantled.
FITZROY JAMES HENRY SOMERSET RAGLAN, 1ST Baron (1788-1853), British field marshal, was the eighth and youngest son of Henry, 5th duke of Beaufort, by Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral the Hon.
For the hardships and sufferings of the English soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter before Sevastopol, owing to failure in the commissariat, both as regards food and clothing, Lord Raglan and his staff were at the time severely censured by the press and the government; but, while Lord Raglan was possibly to blame in representing matters in a too sanguine light, it afterwards appeared that the chief neglect rested with the home authorities.
His elder son having been killed at the battle of Ferozeshah (1845), the title descended to his younger son Richard Henry Fitzroy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (1817-1884); and subsequently to the latter's son, George Fitzroy Henry Somerset, 3rd baron (b.

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