Note 64 — No. 217. [Steele. From Saturday, Aug. 26, to Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1710.
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The tucker "ran in a small kind of ruffle round the uppermost verge of the woman's stays, and by that means covered a great part of the shoulders and bosom" (Guardian, No. 100). A tendency to abandon the use of the tucker was the subject of Addison's satire (ibid., No. 109).