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
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
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
When the attorney came, she had on her "best bib and tucker," and never looked lovelier.
From Octavia The Octoroon by Lee, J. F.
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
