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

I suppose she’ll be a wondrous sight in her ‘best bib and tucker.’

From Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Marlowe, Amy Bell

And now," said Patricia, "I must run upstairs and see that my best bib and tucker are in proper condition to be worn before my fianc�.

From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Jenkins, Herbert George

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

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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various