Sunday clothes

[ suhn-dey klohz, klohthzsuhn-dee ]

plural noun

1. a person's best or newest clothing, as saved for Sundays and special occasions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sunday clothes¹

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

And these were all over and above the gentry and Sunday-clothes folk inside.

From Project Gutenberg

It struck me as a drawback that these picturesque people had put on Sunday-clothes to look as much like shop-keepers as possible.

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That slaves appear in their clean Sunday-clothes, is the first duty.

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It struck me as a drawback that these picturesque people had put on Sunday-clothes to look as much like shopkeepers as possible.

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This was Sunday, and all the family were in their Sunday-clothes.

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