bertha

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To show that it was the PKF proteins that were doing the killing, University of British Columbia molecular biologist David Theilmann and colleagues infected bertha armyworms with two baculovirus species, MacoNPV-A and MacoNPV-B.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 29, 2021

Edwardian sleeves and bertha collars, ribbons, roses and trailing black velvet are the tricks of the trade.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there's that lace of mine you can have for a bertha.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

She pulled the lace bertha from her shoulders, and began to take out her hairpins, "I sha'n't be the one to say 'Let us be married.'"

From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

The ends of the bertha hung loosely and under it she had tied an apron of sheerest linen, edged with narrow Duchesse lace.

From Lavender and Old Lace by Reed, Myrtle