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
Before the Doctor could reply, around the corner of the house, bringing little Kenyon Adams in his best bib and tucker, came the lofty figure of Mrs. Nesbit.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
She came down stairs one evening arrayed in her best bib and tucker, and was speedily joined by John, whose appearance likewise indicated some approaching festivity—all but his face, which wore a rather disgusted expression.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
Jupiter might as soon keep awake when Juno came in best bib and tucker, and with the cestus of Venus, to get him to sleep.
From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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
