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Sunday clothes

[ suhn-dey klohz, klohthzsuhn-dee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

First recorded in 1635–45

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

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

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

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

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

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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