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bertha

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ber·tha  (bûrth)
n.
A wide deep collar, often of lace, that covers the shoulders of a dress.

[French berthe, after Bertha (died 783), Carolingian queen as the wife of Pepin the Short.]


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He stopped; for Bertha had drawn closer round his neck, and from the arm that clung about him, came a warning pressure which he understood too well.
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As with a whisk her short skirts vanished into the darkness, the two spectators--Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Williams--sat looking at each other in speechless amazement.
 
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