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
She hoped that Dyckman would take her out to the theater or a dance, and she put on her best bib and tucker, the bib being conspicuously missing.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
She wore a bib and tucker, and pinafore, with a bouncing propriety, fit to make the boldest spectator alarmed at the idea of bringing such a household responsibility on his shoulders.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various
Dressed in his best bib and tucker, he was, beaver hat and all.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
All the family wore their best bib and tucker, and even Stepan Mihailovitch was forced to smarten himself up.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
