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The garment's polite invitation for your arm to enter the building.

means The opening in a shirt or jacket where the sleeve meets the body and your arm passes through.

from A plainspoken English compound from arm plus hole, in use since the 1400sMiddle English saw no need for fancier tailoring vocabulary.

Tailor termPros call it the armscye, from arm plus eye.
Fit make-or-breakToo tight binds, too low gapes embarrassingly.
Body doubleEach garment naturally needs exactly two.
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