Definition of Sunday best

1. Noun. The best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday.

Exact synonyms: Sunday Clothes
Generic synonyms: Finery
Language type: Colloquialism

Definition of Sunday best

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunday Best

Sunbitterns
Sunda
Sunda Islands
Sunda Strait
Sunda pangolin
Sunda pangolins
Sundacarpus
Sundacarpus amara
Sundaland
Sundanese
Sundas
Sunday
Sunday-best
Sunday-go-to-meeting
Sunday-go-to-meeting(a)
Sunday best
Sunday clothes
Sunday driver
Sunday drivers
Sunday letter
Sunday motorist
Sunday name
Sunday names
Sunday of the Five Loaves
Sunday out
Sunday painter
Sunday punch
Sunday punches
Sunday roast
Sunday roasts

Literary usage of Sunday best

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sunday at Home by Religious Tract Society, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"... comparatively silent, after the above outburst, as to the deeper exercises of his soul s. G. o. sunday best. THE BEST AND THE WORST OF IT. ' BT THE REV. ..."

2. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1885)
"In a large room next the stable and behind the kitchen the farm-people were assembled, men, women, and children, in their sunday best, who all stood up when ..."

3. Disraeli and His Day by William Fraser (1891)
"It has, however, irrespective of the likeness, the merit of representing him in what at Eton we called his " Sunday-best." The only other bust in the hall ..."

4. Disraeli and His Day by William Fraser (1891)
"It has, however, irrespective of the likeness, the merit of representing him in what at Eton we called his " Sunday-best." The only other bust in the hall ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"sunday best, best clothes, as kept for use on Sundays and holidays. ... J At eleven o'clock Mrs. Gibson was off, all in her Sunday-best (to use the ..."

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