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Sunday best (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.
1834 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 83:And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best
1886, Louisa M Alcott, chapter 18, in Jo's Boys , Boston: Roberts Brothers:It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.
1914, S. G. Tallentyre , “VIII. Realisation”, in Matthew Hargraves, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 155: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.
2009 January 18, Brian Knowlton, “Economy and Iraq are set to lead Obama agenda”, in International Herald Tribune, archived from the original on 2009-01-20: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.
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