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