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
Yesterday was Sunday and Olga in her best bib and tucker sat out in the sun with Dinky-Dink.
From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn
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
Since then, imagination has been at play; and, in accordance with its suggestions, his bib and tucker have been donned, as trusty adjutants to the formidable wooden spoon.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
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