| 词汇 | raglan sleeve |
| 词源 | raglan sleeve. “I say, bring back my arm—the ring my wife gave me is on the finger!” Lord Raglan is supposed to have said something to this effect immediately after field surgery when surgeons cut off his badly wounded sword arm at the Battle of Waterloo. In any case, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset (1788– 1855), first Baron Raglan, was renowned for his courage. Rag- lan served as aide-de-camp and secretary to the duke of Wel- lington, whose niece he married, succeeding him on his death as commander of all British forces. During the Crimean War, Raglan was a familiar figure on the battlefields, dressed in his raglan overcoat, a loose-fitting coat with sleeves extending to the neck. The raglan had been named for him at about this time, and today the loose raglan sleeve is still a popular fashion. He died soon after the siege of Sevastopol, in which 1,500 Brit- ish troops were lost, and his men blamed him for the rout. Raglan’s doctors claimed he died of a broken heart; the official report cited cholera. |
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