undercoat
noun
a coat or jacket worn under another.
undercoats
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present tense formof undercoat (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Prized for their thick undercoats, the dogs were sheared like sheep and often kept in pens or on islands to carefully manage their breeding and to care for the canines' health and vitality.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
Like the Sto:lo, many Coast Salish groups in the Pacific Northwest have oral traditions recollecting dogs whose coiled undercoats were spun into fibers and woven into elaborately patterned blankets.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
Smith’s are white-on-black drawings of simple shapes on stained linen whose undercoats occasionally reveal brighter colors.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022
There’s even more sense of motion in Greg Braun’s diamond-shape “Purple Pansy Petal,” whose magenta surface allows glimpses of blue and yellow undercoats.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2015
The enthusiastic oarsmen first removed their overcoats; their undercoats followed and then collars were unbuttoned.
From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton
