modesty bit

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English

Noun

modesty bit (plural modesty bits)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A modesty piece.
    • 1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 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 […].