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Undercoat

noun

Seal consisting of a coating of a tar or rubberlike material on the underside of a motor vehicle to retard corrosion. Synonym: underseal.

The first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface. Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat.

Thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair. Synonym: underfur.

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"Undercoat" Quotes from Famous Books

... silver, the Man of Sorrows depending dolorously from its arms and backed up by a plaque of silver so that it resembled a porter's badge, depended over the black buttons of his undercoat. He had put it on upon the day when secretly he had married Henry to the papist Lady Katharine Howard. On the same day he had put on a hair shirt, and he had never since removed either the one or the other. He had known very well that this news would reach ...

— The Fifth Queen Crowned • Ford Madox Ford

Words linked to "Undercoat" : couch, paint, coat of paint, fur, seal