bib and tucker
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If you wanted to tell a city clerk from a blacksmith, especially when they were both in their best bib and tucker, all you needed to do was sidle up and sniff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently Monsieur Station Master, and Madame Station Master, and little Station Master fils appeared, each in best bib and tucker, and led the way across the fields, to a little thatched farmhouse two miles distant.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
The town will put it in headlines at once, and with it a picture of yourself in your best bib and tucker, looking as though you loved the whole world.
From His Family by Ernest Poole
The little front garden, in its white-sanded walks and well-weeded beds, brilliant in many-hued blossoms, was just like a spruce country-damsel in her best bib and tucker.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
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