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tucker
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Definition:2. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike---1. One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.2. A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.3. A fuller. [Prov. Eng.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
photo: By E. F. Cooper, (of Edith Wharton) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10720140
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she smoked cigarettes and she said lots of things I didn't understand, e.g., "I'm going to hit the hay," and "It's brass monkeys out there," and "Let's rustle up some tucker."
Mark Haddon. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, p.43 (2005)
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"I thought bush tucker was your thing—you know, bugs and lizards and stuff."
"If you got paid to eat droppings for your day job, maybe you'd fancy a nice steak on your day off, too," he said, and grinned.
Ruth Ware. The Woman in Cabin 10, p.71 (2016)
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the way her dress (which had no tucker) sloped away from her thin shoulders shocked and troubled him.
Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence (1921)
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in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Ah, Monsieur, he said, had you but beheld her as I did with these eyes at that affecting instant with her dainty tucker and her new coquette cap
James Joyce. Ulysses
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She was dressed now just as she was to be in the evening, with a tucker made of “real” lace, which her aunt had lent her for this unparalleled occasion, but with no ornaments besides;
George Eliot. Adam Bede (1859)
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to catch a glimpse of some laundress carrying her linen-basket, a bread-seller in her blue apron, a dairymaid in her tucker and sleeves of white linen, carrying the yoke from which her jugs of milk are suspended,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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My daughter is growing quite a tall lass now, sir,’ said Mr. Chillip, giving his little head another little shake. ‘Her mother let down two tucks in her frocks only last week. Such is time, you see, sir!’
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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