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
Then yard-arm and yard-arm, the frigate with her canvas canopy of upper sails furled, and the brig in her best bib and tucker, they both filled away and moved side by side.
From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)
Her hansom is at the door and, arrayed in her best bib and tucker, she is hurrying through the hall when Dysart, who has just come, presents himself.
From April's Lady A Novel by Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe
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
There the town often goes in its best bib and tucker to hear the lecturers whom Mrs. Markley feeds.
From In Our Town by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
