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

She was dressed in a gray silk poplin with lace bertha and cuffs, and on her white hair she wore a little lace cap.

From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Stokes, Katherine

About her neck she put a bertha, kerchiefwise, and pinned it with a brooch of curiously wrought gold.

From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne

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