Liǎng wèi lǎoyǒu lián mèi ér qù, tánxiào-fēngshēng.
The two old friends joined sleeves and walked off together, talking and laughing.
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袂 'sleeve' rarely stands alone today. It survives in set literary phrases: 联袂 (jointly, hand in hand, now common in 'co-starring'), and 分袂 (to part company).
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Literary only, alive mainly inside fixed compounds; 袖子 is the everyday word for sleeve.
