Sunday best

Sunday-best English Alternative forms en Sunday-best Pronunciation en En-au-Sunday best.ogg AU Noun - en idiomatic A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday. en Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes roast-meat clothes<qq:dated> 83 And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best 18 It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best. en 1914 VIII. Realisation S. G. Tallentyre [Evelyn Beatrice Hall] Matthew Hargraves London w:G. P. Putnam's Sons 155 https://archive.org/details/matthewhargrave00hallgoog/page/n166/mode/2up?q=Sunday It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs. en January 18, 2009 Brian Knowlton https://web.archive.org/web/20090120175804/http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/18/news/transition.4-410493.php 2009-01-20 Economy and Iraq are set to lead Obama agenda International Herald Tribune January 20, 2009 More than 250 people, most of them African-American churchgoers dressed in their Sunday best, erupted in screams when the presidential motorcade turned onto the street. Related terms en Sunday dinner Sunday-go-to-meeting Sunday roast Translations person's finest clothing Danish: da søndagstøj Dutch: nl zondagse pak n Faroese: fo sunnudagsklæði n-p Finnish: fi pyhävaatteet p, fi pyhäpuku French: fr endimanché (adjective), fr son trente-et-un m German: de Sonntagsstaat Greek: el κυριακάτικα n-p Polish: pl ubranie wyjściowe n Scots: sco braws p Spanish: es endomingado (adjective) Swedish: sv söndagskläder c-p See also en endimanched meetinghouse en Clothing