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English
Etymology
From French endimancher + -ed.
Adjective
endimanched (not comparable)
- Dressed up in their Sunday best.
1845, Angus B. Beach, “Oracles”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 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, 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'?
Translations
dressed up in their Sunday best