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underslip en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From under- + slip.

Meanings

  1. A woman's undergarment.
  2. An underlying layer of slip.
    • The designs in the slip appear to have been created through a negative resist technique, in which a lighter-colored underslip shows through a darker overlying slip. 2011, Walter R. T. Witschey, Clifford T. Brown, Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica, page 336:

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