Frombe-(“off, away”) +‎sleeve.

besleeve (third-person singular simple presentbesleeves,present participlebesleeving,simple past and past participlebesleeved)

1. (transitive, obsolete) Totake thesleeves from (a bishop).

• besleeving

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