Sunday best
See also: Sunday-best
English
Alternative forms
- Sunday-best
Pronunciation
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Noun
Sunday best (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.
- 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 83:
- And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best
- 1886, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 18, in Jo's Boys:
- It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.
- 2009 January 18, Brian Knowlton, “Economy and Iraq are set to lead Obama agenda”, in International Herald Tribune, archived from the original on 2009-01-20, retrieved January 20, 2009:
- More than 250 people, most of them African-American churchgoers dressed in their Sunday best, erupted in screams when the presidential motorcade turned onto the street.
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Synonyms
- Sunday-go-to-meeting
Translations
person's finest clothing
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See also
- endimanched