Definition
A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.
In Context
- "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."
Also Said As
- Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
- roast-meat clothes
See Also
- Sunday dinner
- Sunday-go-to-meeting
- Sunday roast
- endimanched
- meetinghouse