Sunday clothes
[ suhn-dey klohz, klohthz suhn-dee ]
plural noun
a person's best or newest clothing, as saved for Sundays and special occasions.
Origin of Sunday clothes
1First recorded in 1635–45
- Also called Sun·day best .
Words Nearby Sunday clothes
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How to use Sunday clothes in a sentence
And these were all over and above the gentry and Sunday-clothes folk inside.
Desperate Remedies | Thomas HardyIt struck me as a drawback that these picturesque people had put on Sunday-clothes to look as much like shop-keepers as possible.
New Italian sketches | John Addington SymondsThat slaves appear in their clean Sunday-clothes, is the first duty.
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery | William A. SmithIt struck me as a drawback that these picturesque people had put on Sunday-clothes to look as much like shopkeepers as possible.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece | John Addington SymondsThis was Sunday, and all the family were in their Sunday-clothes.
Travels in England in 1782 | Charles P. Moritz
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