(n.) A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saturday’s can-can dancers – with their petticoats in team colours – were a novelty but it is Toulon’s can-do attitude towards recruitment that is taking them – regardless of the tournament they play in – to places others cannot reach.
(2) This week’s Champions League semi-finals did not have the gravitas of 1792’s famous “Petticoat Coat” duel between Lady Almeria Braddock and Mrs Elphinstone, but the stakes were high all the same.
(3) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
(4) Come here for secondhand cartoon sweaters, neon petticoats and pink roller skates or a T-shirt with a cracked silk screen of 1980s-era Madonna.
(5) Hadow puts it more chivalrously: "I see the Arctic as a maiden newly discovered on the social scene, and we're melting away her petticoats, and there are some avaricious types peering underneath, and someone needs to defend her honour."
(6) The other woman we were sneakily reading in 1963 was Simone de Beauvoir, but the childhoods of little-girl colonials such as ourselves lacked starched petticoats and were not very French.
(7) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(8) A Conservative MP has criticised the "night of the petticoats" reshuffle that brought several new women into the cabinet last week.
(9) Some of them dealt with Cambridge, Paris and Switzerland, while those on his upbringing were not only delightful but almost intolerably poignant to anyone of his generation: rationing, London fogs, trolleybuses, the local Sainsbury's which still had sawdust on its floor and "assistants in starched blue-and-white aprons", not to mention the way that "girls in those days came buttressed in an impenetrable Maginot Line of hooks, belts, girdles, nylons, roll-ons, suspenders, slips and petticoats".
(10) "Keira was lovely to act with, but there were something like 73 layers of petticoat to get through.
(11) Rachel Simpson, blogger at Pretty Petticoats and second-year fashion retail management student at Birmingham City University I've never attended any of the shows, but I go down to Somerset House during London Fashion Week to get inspiration from what everyone is wearing.
(12) At other times she used her Lady Bracknell manner to get past KGB officers; when she went to Zimbabwe she adopted the air of a slightly senile elderly tourist and in El Salvador she made a white flag to fly on the car out of an M&S petticoat.
(13) A pink petticoat in the forecourt distinguishes this two-storey heap of rubble from other more intact buildings nearby.
(14) For reasons which may or may not be connected to voluminous frilly petticoats, the most attractive period is often the Victorian age.
(15) Each shop – Secret Dog, Garter, Ilil, Hayatochiri and Southpole - is owned by young enthusiastic designers who toil away making one-off pieces like petticoats and blouses made from wire mesh, or a pair of Nike Air Force 1 trainers nailed to traditional wooden sandal blocks and spray-painted pink.
Undercoat
Definition:
(n.) A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.
(n.) A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microfilaments thus continuously undercoat the luminal membrane during exocytosis although the exocytic process involves the dilation and subsequent reduction of the luminal membrane due to the addition and removal of secretory granule membranes.
(2) Within the MVs, intravesicular filaments, amorphous material, and membrane-associated undercoat structures were observed.
(3) It is supposed that this undercoat gives the structural support for the lateral membrane of the apical region in the taste bud cells.
(4) In this study, using the isolated AJ, we have obtained two mAbs specific to the 220-kD undercoat-constitutive protein.
(5) An 82-kD protein has been purified from the undercoat of the adherens junction isolated from the rat liver.
(6) Together, these results lead us to conclude that radixin is present in the undercoat of the cell-to-cell adherens junctions and that of the cleavage furrow, although their respective molecular architectures are distinct.
(7) Radixin is an actin barbed-end capping protein which is highly concentrated in the undercoat of the cell-to-cell adherens junction and the cleavage furrow in the interphase and mitotic phase, respectively (Tsukita, Sa., Y. Hieda, and Sh.
(8) It was seen in the mitochondria and in the subplasmalemmal undercoat.
(9) Recent research has focused on the molecular linkage between cadherins and actin filaments in the undercoat of adherens junctions in order to understand the functions of these undercoat-constitutive proteins in the regulation and signal transduction of cadherin-based cell adhesion.
(10) Compared with the medium-energy-diet, the high-energy diet reduced hair weight per unit of surface area, undercoat number and guard hair medullation.
(11) The immunoelectron microscopy of the extensor digitorum longus muscles of six mdx mice and six control mice showed the location of anti-dystrophin antibody along the muscle plasma membrane undercoat of all the muscle samples from the control mice without any antibody reaction in the mdx mice muscles.
(12) The markedly reduced perturbability of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane, compared to other cells, has been attributed to the constraining influence of the red cell membrane skeleton, the undercoat composed of spectrin, actin, and protein 4.1.
(13) The plasmalemmal undercoat, which was composed of vertical and horizontal layers, was observed on the zonula occludens.
(14) Plasmamembrane and its cytoskeletal undercoat were characterized by electron microscopy in gap junctions (GJs) of steroidogenic cells of the guinea pig and bullfrog adrenal glands.
(15) The changes of in vitro cultivated cells have in contrast been confirmed with previous experimentation showing that the varnish itself causes toxicity for living cells and therefore is not convenient to undercoat cavities in the proximity of pulps.
(16) Goats that have been selected for production of this fine, downy undercoat are referred to as "Cashmere" goats.
(17) Immunofluorescence microscopy and immune electron microscopy have revealed that this protein is distributed not only at the undercoat of adherens junctions but also along actin bundles associated with the junction in nonmuscle cells: stress fibers in cultured fibroblasts and circumferential bundles in epithelial cells.
(18) The Bacillus subtilis spore coat consists of three morphological layers: a diffuse undercoat, a striated inner coat and a densely staining outer coat.
(19) The undercoat is a special form of the cytoskeleton-membrane interaction, though it constitutes a part of the cytoskeleton.
(20) These results show that the filaments may be closely associated with the plasmalemmal infoldings and included as the same category of plasmalemmal undercoat.