a. Without a bib.
1857. Minnesota Weekly Times, 2 May, 1/4. So the bibless baby from Nova Scotia sits boosted up at the editorial table, like the driveling hero of Cervantes, scattering his slaver, without discrimination, over a sensible public already sickened with his spleen.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., III. iv. 27. She persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest.
