Sunday best

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Sunday best

noun Sunday-best

idiomatic, uncountable A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday. And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best
Similar: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, roast-meat clothes

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noun person's finest clothing

Español	endomingado
Français	endimanché, son trente-et-un
Deutsch	Sonntagsstaat
Ελληνικά	κυριακάτικα kyriakátika

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@misc{sunday_best_2026,
  title = {Sunday best},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sunday%20best},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}