"modesty bit" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 151",
          "text": "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 […].",
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        "A modesty piece."
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        "(obsolete, rare) A modesty piece."
      ],
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  "word": "modesty bit"
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          "ref": "1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 151",
          "text": "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 […].",
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        "A modesty piece."
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        "(obsolete, rare) A modesty piece."
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  "word": "modesty bit"
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