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Sunday best

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Sunday best
n.
One's best and often most formal clothing.
[From the practice among Christians of wearing one's best clothing to attend church on Sundays.]
Sunday best
n
(Clothing & Fashion) one's best clothes, esp regarded as those most suitable for churchgoing
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Noun1.Sunday bestSunday best - the best attire you have which is worn to church on Sunday
Sunday clothes
finery - elaborate or showy attire and accessories
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Translations
Sunday best n → abito della domenica
Sunday best n → abito della domenica


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Alec was off at once, and they saw no more of him till the old barouche was at the door, and Aunt Plenty just rustling downstairs in her Sunday best, with Rose like a little black shadow behind her.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
We see staid families, with prayer-book and beads, enter the gondola dressed in their Sunday best, and float away to church.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
They were strange ornaments to bring on a sea voyage--china pugs, tea-sets in miniature, cups stamped floridly with the arms of the city of Bristol, hair-pin boxes crusted with shamrock, antelopes' heads in coloured plaster, together with a multitude of tiny photographs, representing downright workmen in their Sunday best, and women holding white babies.
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