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

Or the thin sprigged blue and white? it was so pretty—bunches of blue flowers on a cross-barred muslin, and made with three flounces and a bertha.

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

Dexie exclaimed, as she lifted a handsome lace bertha.

From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Eveleth, Stanford

The bertha, as we should call it now, was as a cobweb, and the lace from the puff sleeve falling over the arm of the same elegant material.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie