Sunday clothes

[ suhn-dey klohz, klohthz suhn-dee ]

/ ˈsʌn deɪ ˈkloʊz, ˈkloʊðz ˈsʌn di /

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plural noun

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

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Also called Sun·day best .

Origin of Sunday clothes

First recorded in 1635–45

Words nearby Sunday clothes

Sundanese, Sunda Strait, Sunday, Sunday baby, Sunday best, Sunday clothes, Sunday driver, Sunday-go-to-meeting, Sunday Morning, Sunday painter, Sunday punch

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 Hardy
It 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 Symonds
That slaves appear in their clean Sunday-clothes, is the first duty.
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery|William A. Smith
It 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 Symonds

This was Sunday, and all the family were in their Sunday-clothes.
Travels in England in 1782|Charles P. Moritz