(n.) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
(n.) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) ☞ Jimmy Cowan of Aston Villa overpowering the great Steve Bloomer in 1897!
(2) "Derby County's idolising of Steve Bloomer takes some beating," writes Matt Lewis.
(3) This study was designed to test the concurrent validity of the revised Task-Oriented Assessment (TOA) component of the Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) (Bloomer & Williams, 1979) with Part 1 of the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) (Nihira, Foster, Shellhaas, & Leland, 1969, 1974) and to develop a means of interpretation for the numeric scores on the TOA.
(4) Reanalyses of Year 1 data based on these follow-up outcomes demonstrated that only late bloomers used more communicative gestures than did language-matched controls.
(5) Late bloomers also used more communicative gestures than did age-matched controls, suggesting that they (the late bloomers) were using gestures to compensate for their small oral expressive vocabulary.
(6) I'm a late bloomer: I like to come to things at my own tempo.
(7) Ibanez, in his third stint with the Mariners and old enough to remember what it was like to play in the Kingdome, Seattle's previous home , is a bit of a late bloomer.
(8) Phil Bloomer, Oxfam 's director of campaigns, was more blunt: "Every year we delay an estimated 150,000 people will have died and a further 1 million displaced as a result of climate change."
(9) Others were being used as evacuation centres, said Bloomer, making it important to find alternative spaces.
(10) "We cooked for the nuns, we washed their big bloomers, we cleaned their rooms.
(11) She spent £1,168 on champagne and flowers, mostly at the Auntie's Bloomers shop at the BBC Television Centre in west London, between 22 March 2004 and 26 November 2004.
(12) And now it has Bodvarsson, a rare Icelandic league late bloomer.
(13) One senior City fund manager said the Prudential was a strong enough name to find support for the cash call, its second in six years following the £1bn rights issue in 2004 that ultimately cost then-chief executive Jonathan Bloomer his job .
(14) Previous X-ray studies (2.8-A resolution) on the crystals of tobacco mosaic virus protein (TMVP) grown from solutions containing high salt have characterized the structure of the protein aggregate as a bilayered cylindrical disk formed by 34 identical subunits [Bloomer, A.C., Champness, J.N., Bricogne, G., Staden, R., & Klug, A.
(15) The Xenopus 5S RNA replication-expression model of Gottesfeld and Bloomer (Cell 28:781-791, 1982) and Wormington et al.
(16) Oxfam's campaigns and policy director, Phil Bloomer, said: "E.ON's plans to cancel building a new coal plant at Kingsnorth is a welcome reprieve for the millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change.
(17) A handful of investors are understood be considering whether to bypass the chairman, Sir David Clementi, who has been unflinching in his support for chief executive Jonathan Bloomer, and approach the senior non-executive, Rob Rowley, instead.
(18) Results showed that all 4 children who were truly delayed at follow-up had been delayed in language comprehension at the first visit, but the 6 late bloomers had been at the same level as their age-matched controls.
(19) It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!").
(20) Phil Bloomer is the executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre .
Bloomery
Definition:
(n.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.