underbear

English

From Middle English underberen (“to support”), from Old English underberan (“to support, endure”), equivalent to under- +‎ bear.

underbear (third-person singular simple present underbears, present participle underbearing, simple past underbore or (obsolete) underbare, past participle underborne)

To support, endure.
(transitive) To line, guard or face a material, especially cloth.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
  cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel