modesty bit
English
Noun
modesty bit (plural modesty bits)
- (obsolete, rare) A modesty piece. [18th c.]
- 1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 151:
- Her Dress, too, was of the same cast, a thin muslin short sacque and Coat lined throughout with Pink, – a modesty bit – and something of a very short cloak half concealed about half of her old wrinkled Neck […].
- 1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 151: