undercoat

IPA: ˈʌndɝkoʊt

A layer of short hairs underneath the longer ones of an animal's fur
A coat of paint or other material applied onto a surface before that of a topcoat; a coloured primer.
(obsolete) A coat for wearing indoors, under an overcoat.

Examples of "undercoat" in Sentences

Cashmere comes mainly from the "undercoat" of the cashmere goat.
Getty Images Small dogs that lack a thick undercoat, like this miniature pinscher, may need outerwear in the wintertime.
As a digital artist, working from an exact middle grey 'undercoat' helps me to ensure my tones are correct, despite monitor variations.
The best thing is that it gets all of the undercoat, which is especially important in a Lab like Connor who's got that double coat of fur.
The walls in the bathroom had not been painted in a while, they had that peculiar white/yellow tinge which indicated the undercoat was seeping through.
He's cute, small (20lbs), and currently moulting (ie, his undercoat is shedding in ginormous clumps), in case you're new to the blog and haven't seen pictures.
It's the undercoat that musk ox, which have been around since the last Ice Age apparently having survived it better than its contemporary, the wooly mammoth, shed as they frolic in the frozen north.
ON SUNDAY [SEPTEMBER 29, 1907] … What you experienced with the Portuguese grape is something I know so well: I am feeling it simultaneously in two pomegranates I recently bought from Potin; how glorious they are in their massive heaviness, with the curved ornament of the pistil still on the top; princely in their golden skins with the red undercoat showing through, strong and genuine, like the leather of old Cordovan tapestries.