A bibbed apron. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This rather handsome bird is carrying genes for a crest, and it would seem for the 'bibbed' pattern. From Wordnik.com. [10,000 Birds] Reference
And even that was not wholly visible behind a large paint-streaked bibbed apron. From Wordnik.com. [Ungrateful Governess]
Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
But the massive colony of yellow-bibbed king penguins is the sight we had been waiting for. From Wordnik.com. [Photo Journeys: Alison Wright: Antarctica] Reference
You may be sure she soon dressed, and tripped down the old-fashioned staircase -- a dainty midge, in blue serge frock and white-bibbed apron. From Wordnik.com. [The Heiress of Wyvern Court] Reference
A man of shining dark skin, in a white work shirt and blue bibbed overalls, his large brown eyes filled with .... the quiet peace of completion. From Wordnik.com. [Finally It Is Here] Reference
The family were bibbed and pinafored; the easy coat and slippers were at the fire, and warmed through and through -- it was a season of intenseness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
I am heartened that, by and large, the thousands of young designers I come into contact with are simply trying to make beautiful things to the best of their ability, rather than attain a lifestyle that allows them to be bibbed and hand-fed grapes. From Wordnik.com. [Gunn’s Golden Rules] Reference
Throwing a small bibbed lure about is proving a hit. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Speaker's hostess is Ailsa Tweddle and the competition is a bibbed pinny. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference
We loved the pouf sleeves and the bibbed neckline, as well as the pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Memphis Flyer] Reference
Warmth radiated from the girls, and their bibbed aprons shone in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02] Reference
A wholesome, blue-gowned rock with a neat, full-bibbed white apron; that's what she was!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference
Firstly comes this very handsome bibbed and crested 'manky' from Summerlake Park, Tigard. From Wordnik.com. [10,000 Birds] Reference
After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
The ACTI Over Garment Suite is comprised of a specially-designed smock, bibbed over-pants and pack cover. From Wordnik.com. [Defense Review] Reference
I was in the black dress with the white-bibbed apron, and I looked up at him still dazed by the shine of that diamond and my longing for it. From Wordnik.com. [In the Bishop's Carriage] Reference
Me, staring down the pan of smoldering hot wings, buffalo sauce stains on my bibbed over-alls, pointing to a really saucy-lookin 'chunk of chicken. From Wordnik.com. [PackerChatters] Reference
Health and Safety insisted that we dressed appropriately for the visit, so we were bibbed, gloved, hatted and goggled like a bunch of bee-keepers going to tend hives. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
A slow and ponderous man, of the drayman order of human architecture, dressed in a corrugated suit and bibbed apron, apparently a composite of door-mat and rhinoceros-hide. From Wordnik.com. [No Thoroughfare] Reference
Regionalism Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry were the other two and, dressed in his bibbed overalls, presented himself as an antidote to East Coast pretentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Above the branding date stamp was a snapshot of two boys, each wearing bibbed overalls and both holding onto the same football and staring into the "Kodak" with identical wide grins. From Wordnik.com. [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference
Those who drive by the stone wall that encloses the runoff from the City Park to the Antietam Creek can't possibly imagine the sight of laborers in bibbed overalls toiling for a few dollars a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
Perforce, I felt obliged to follow his lead, for only a guzzling brute could have bibbed alone, surrounded by four teetotallers; but, deprived of even an innocent glass of Riviera beer, my soul thirsted for a revenge which could not be quenched with iced water; and. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend the Chauffeur] Reference
The door was only opened wide enough at first to admit the head, but as soon as its owner had given a glance round, the door opened farther, and the rest of a rather small person appeared, dressed in a well-worn page's button suit, partly hidden by a dirty green-baize bibbed apron. From Wordnik.com. [The Bag of Diamonds] Reference
A bibbed apron, and superintended the serving and distribution of the patients 'one-o'clock dinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
3 More on-the spot penalties for breathing in a public place means not just more tax revenues but more crimes being recorded by the yellow-bibbed tax collectors / plastic plod. From Wordnik.com. [How is crime down?] Reference
Her black gown covered by a large white, bibbed apron, white sleeves to her elbows, standing behind the counter, to weigh treacle into a customer's jar, or to descant on the merits of various scrubbing soaps. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
He is bibbed against misadventure. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
This Miller hath so wisely bibbed of ale. From Wordnik.com. [Playful Poems] Reference
White-bibbed babbler. From Wordnik.com. [Western Java rain forests] Reference
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