(n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
(n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Queen also comes under fire: by tolerating the British guards' continued use of bearskin hats, she has proven herself "indifferent to barbarism".
(2) I am not ashamed to admit I am one of those hem-touchers, fascinated to meet the man who changed the face of modern opera with his centenary Ring cycle at Bayreuth in 1976, when he infuriated traditionalists by replacing Wagnerian horns and bearskins with the trappings of 19th-century plutocracy.
(3) Dressed in a bear costume and bearing a motto "Bearskins look better on bears", she didn't seem to mind being ignored.
(4) The prince – a rare British royal venturing into the heart of francophone, would-be separatist Quebec – received a formal welcome and inspection parade outside the city hall by the bearskin-helmeted members of the locally recruited 22nd regiment, known as "Les Van Doos".
Shaggy
Definition:
(n.) Rough with long hair or wool.
(n.) Rough; rugged; jaggy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
(2) The most characteristic feature, seen in 93% of the cases, was shaggy deposition of fibrinogen along the basement membrane.
(3) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(4) Fold thickening evolved into fold effacement with a shaggy contour in two patients with viral infection.
(5) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(6) "Shaggy" echoes recorded from the aortic leaflets in diastole as well as irregular diastolic densities in the left ventricular outflow tract suggested flail aortic leaflets secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
(7) Now father to a one-year-old boy, with singer Mariqueen Maandig, Reznor wears jeans, a hoodie and a shaggy, stay-at-home beard, although he still dyes his hair raven-black.
(8) Jon Stewart is back as host of The Daily Show, and the shaggy beard he grew over the summer is gone.
(9) The development of supernumerary bristle precursors induced by the mutation shaggy (sgg; also known as zeste-white 3) was examined in the developing wing blade of imaginal and pupal Drosophila.
(10) When we meet he is sporting a shaggy beard and offers a forthright view.
(11) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
(12) The thrombus surface had a shaggy appearance, and were dark (charring), or mixed dark and white in color.
(13) At the time he was posing as New Age healer Dr Dragan Dabic , and was disguised by a thick beard and shaggy hair.
(14) Paralysis does not occur in immunosuppressed mice, which develop a shaggy hair and eventually lose weight and die.
(15) [LAUGH] Your shaggy limbs and the bristling hair on your forearms Suggest a fierce male virtue [CHUCKLE]; but the surgeon called in to lance your swollen piles [BIG LAUGH] dissolves in laughter [GURGLE] at the sight of that well-smoothed passage [ROAR].
(16) Barium contrast studies of the colon demonstrated irregular shaggy mucosa, ulcerations, cobblestone appearance, and thumb printing.
(17) CT scan demonstrated a distended gallbladder with thick shaggy walls which contained a 2 cm gallstone in the neck and also revealed dextrocardia and situs inversus.
(18) Here, we report that the segment polarity gene zeste-white 3 (zw3; also known as shaggy) acts as a repressor of en autoregulation.
(19) Coles’s brother, a former member of the Communards who later became a priest , wrote in his 2014 autobiography that his older sibling’s double life involved infiltrating “some sinister organisation while his wife and baby daughter made do with unpredictable visits … He looked like he had just walked out of the woods, his hair long and shaggy, with a straggly beard, his ears rattling with piercings.” Coles disappeared from the animal rights movement in 1995, telling activists that he was moving to eastern Europe to teach English.
(20) The clinical and light microscopic findings in this case are similar to those previously described of a shaggy, parakeratin-covered, pebbly, or verrucous surface and elongated rete pegs which extend a uniform depth into the underlying conncetive tissue.