tuckers

If men are not attuned to the proportionality of pant to boot, or if they are not able to carry off the maneuver with nonchalance, tuckers could be accused of - and you might want to sit down before you read this -- "trying too hard."

Kate Clinton: Homeland Security 2008

[The MISSES BACON, expecting to be asked to dance, smile simultaneously, and begin to smooth their tuckers.]

Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006

Generally there are two types: the tuckers and the nontuckers.

“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

Generally there are two types: the tuckers and the nontuckers.

“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

They raced, all three, with flying plaits and curls, much kicking-up of long black legs, and a frank display of frills and tuckers.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

As in the fifteenth century, when necks were cut low off the shoulders, they were on occasions filled in with tuckers.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

Hence we have white wigs* and grey stockings, medallions and gold chains with coloured handkerchiefs and discoloured tuckers, and chemises de Sappho, which are often worn till they rather remind one of the pious Queen Isabel, than the Greek poetess.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part IV., 1795 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

In addition, there were many craft gilds (later at least twenty-six were known to exist), the most important being the gilds of the weavers, tuckers and fullers, and the Gild of the Kalendars of Bristol, which devoted itself to religious, educational and social work.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Ah, raiment fine and gems are mine, and costly bibs and tuckers; I got my rocks for mining stocks -- I worked the jays and suckers.

Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason

Her entire wardrobe had to be inspected and replenished, as far as slender means would permit; old garments were made to look as much like new as possible, and little bits of ribbon and lace which had not seen the light for years, because there were so few suitable occasions for wearing them in a quiet country place, now reappeared in the form of bows and tuckers for the neck.

Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin Lucy Byerley