Meaning of Sunday best | Babel Free

Definitions

A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.

idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best”

“It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.”

“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.”

“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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