Sunday best

See also: Sunday-best

English

Alternative forms

• Sunday-best

Pronunciation

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Noun

Sunday best (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.
   • 1886, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 18, in Jo's Boys:

     It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.

   • 2009, Brian Knowlton, "Economy and Iraq are set to lead Obama agenda," International Herald Tribune, 18 Jan. (retrieved 20 Jan. 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.

Synonyms

• Sunday-go-to-meeting

Translations

person's finest clothing

• Danish: søndagstøj
• Dutch: zondagse pak n
• Faroese: sunnudagsklæði n pl
• Finnish: pyhävaatteet pl, pyhäpuku
• French: ≈ endimanché (fr)
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• German: Sonntagsstaat (de)
• Greek: κυριακάτικα (el) n pl (kyriakátika)
• Scots: braws pl
• Spanish: ≈ endomingado (es)
• Swedish: söndagskläder c pl

See also

• endimanched