best bib and tucker
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If you wanted to tell a city clerk from a blacksmith, especially when they were both in their best bib and tucker, all you needed to do was sidle up and sniff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Melbourne proudly put on its best bib and tucker for the local girl who made good.
From Time Magazine Archive
And most of them even in their best bib and tucker were not out of the picture.
From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Alice B. Emerson
Nature appears to have on her best bib and tucker for the occasion.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
Dressed in his best bib and tucker, he was, beaver hat and all.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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