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
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
The malicious rumor, by-the-way, which declared that she wore a bib and tucker at the time of Jackson’s war with the United States Bank, was wickedly false.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 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
