Sunday supplement

American  

noun

1. a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.

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Etymology

Origin of Sunday supplement

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

The star-smitten 1924 headline “They Swim in Their Own Backyards” reads like an early, prim version of today’s Sunday supplement real estate porn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2021

New York was started by the editor Clay Felker in the 1960s as a Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2019

So why have I never read anything about these albums in Mojo or the Sunday supplement pull-outs?

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2016

Back when I was a sprightly young hotshot, I used to produce parody issues of Book World in that golden age when the section was a Sunday supplement.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2015

The day before, October 8,1933, the American Weekly, a Sunday supplement in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and dozens of other American newspapers, had run a single-frame, half-page cartoon, one in a series titled City Shadows.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown