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n. (context idiom English) attractive clothing
Usage examples of "best bib and tucker".
When you get back, I'll be right here in Foxhall Roal, waiting like a good Navy wife in my best bib and tucker, with a full martini jug.
That was when Micky Maguire arrived, dressed to kill in his best bib and tucker.
The following evening we put on best bib and tucker and turn up at the De Montfort Hall, where this six-year-old is expected to perform.
He was on duty in the evenings, like the previous one when he'd put on his best bib and tucker and gone to Sister Barbara's house.
Whereupon I told her that we all intended to put on our best bib and tucker.
It stands in Instopressible how Meynhir Mayour, our boorgomaister, thon staunch Thorsman, (our Nancy's fancy, our own Nanny's Big Billy), his hod hoisted, in best bib and tucker, with Woolington bottes over buckram babbishkis and his clouded cane and necknoose aureal, surrounded of his full cooperation with fixed baronets and meng our pueblos, restrained by chain of hands from pinchgut, hoghill, darklane, gibbetmeade and beaux and laddes and bumbellye, shall receive Dom King at broadstone barrow meet a keys of goodmorrow on to his pompey cushion.