roast-meat clothes
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A reference to the Sunday roast.
Noun
[edit]roast-meat clothes pl (plural only)
- (dated, slang) Sunday best.
- 1889, “Simple Simon's misfortunes and his wife Margery's cruelty”, in Robert Hays Cunningham, editor, Amusing Prose Chap Books[1]:
- But the morning was ushered in with a mighty storm, only because Simon put on his roast-meat clothes.
Descendants
[edit]- →? German: Bratenrock (calque)
Further reading
[edit]- “roast-meat clothes n.” under “roast meat n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present