Sunday clothes

[suhn-dey klohz, klohthz, suhn-dee]

plural noun

1. a person's best or newest clothing, as saved for Sundays and special occasions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sunday clothes¹

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

“We had working clothes and Sunday clothes,” Ms. McLaurin later told an interviewer for an oral history project.

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Pa got up from the table and walked out without so much as changing into his Sunday clothes.

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It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham’s.

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Some are even delightful: a cheering theater audience thrusting flowers at performers; a happy-looking family, perhaps in their Sunday clothes, walking down a busy street; and, of course, Lawrence’s iconic builders.

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I guess that’s why barely one week later Daddy made me wear my itchy, hot Sunday clothes to the train depot.

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