Sunday clothes
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Sunday clothes
First recorded in 1635–45
Example Sentences
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Out on the small front gallery she had hung Bobinôt’s Sunday clothes to dry and she hastened out to gather them before the rain fell.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
"Leave your church shoes and your Sunday clothes," sings Cristal over a trippy, charcoal-smudged beat.
From BBC ● May 6, 2020
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.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2020
And then there’s “Hello, Dolly!,” blissfully unaware of twenty-first-century troubles, imploring us to put on our Sunday clothes and get out into the glistening world.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2017
People came and went, dressed in their Sunday clothes, some looking as if they were going somewhere, others wrinkled and worn, as if they’d already been away and couldn’t wait to get home.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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