bib and tucker

Example Sentences

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Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Sure, child; wear your best bib and tucker, if you like, but I like you better in your play-clothes."

From Marjorie at Seacote by Wells, Carolyn

Nothing but barons of beef & turkeys would go down with him to the great greasing & detriment of his new sackcloth bib and tucker.

From A Masque of Days From the Last Essays of Elia: Newly Dressed & Decorated by Crane, Walter

So he must sit and wait till evening came, till a gentleman could put on his best bib and tucker, and then—allons!

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

"We must look out your best bib and tucker."

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.