bib and tucker
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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
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 William Allen White
Nature appears to have on her best bib and tucker for the occasion.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
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 Walter Crane
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