Sunday best
See also: Sunday-best
English
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[edit]- (idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.
- Synonyms: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, roast-meat clothes (dated)
- 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, âThe Devil's Thoughtsâ, 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 M[ay] Alcott, chapter 18, in Joâs Boys, and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to âLittle Men.â, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, âOCLC:
- It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.
- 1914, S. G. Tallentyre [Evelyn Beatrice Hall], âVIII. Realisationâ, in Matthew Hargraves, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 155:
- It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamitesâeach with his comfortable lady-wife on his armâproceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faithâthe Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.
- 2009 January 18, Brian Knowlton, âEconomy and Iraq are set to lead Obama agendaâ, in International Herald Tribune[1], archived from the original on 20 January 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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[edit]person's finest clothing
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