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 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
You have determined that the three Bards shall walk up Parnassus, in their best bib and tucker.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
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
The women proved that they had not left all their finery in the States, while nearly every child was in its best bib and tucker.
From Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers by Adams, James Meade
