endimanched

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English

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Etymology

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From French endimancher +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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endimanched (not comparable)

  1. Dressed up in their Sunday best.
    • 1845, Angus B. Beach, “Oracles”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist[1], part 3, London, page 234:
      You may meet with them by dozens near the Achilles statue in Hyde Park, on fine Sundays evenings in the season, each one explaining to a wondering circle of country cousins, or endimanched city clerks, the arms upon the carriages as they slowly defile past, and true names and titles of the occupants.
    • 1931, Life and Letters[2], page 93:
      Do you not catch before these Fontainebleau Venuses and Dianas the echo of a titter, as of some Parisian commercial traveller stopping his adoring and endimanched country cousins in front of La Source—'tiens, une jolie femme toute nue'?

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