The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RAGLAN
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More clues leading to the result RAGLAN
- Kid left an overcoat
- Bit of cloth, woolly, not tucked into overcoat
- Daily with short country coat
- Garment of paper set on light removing hem
- Newspaper left on top of an overcoat
- Newspaper article about length for such a coat
- Bit of cloth left to be patched to a new garment
- Confused, Jerome left violent Major General's sleeve
- Jumper of sorts sprinted, covering a good length
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What does RAGLAN mean?
RAGLAN noun- An overcoat with sleeves of this type.
- (of a sleeve) Being or having a kind of sleeve that continues in one piece up to the neck of a garment, without a shoulder seam.