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Sunday best
Sunday bestn. 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 Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Sunday best - the best attire you have which is worn to church on SundaySunday clothesfinery - elaborate or showy attire and accessoriescolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
TranslationsSunday best
(one's) Sunday bestOne's very best clothes, as one would wear to a Sunday church service. Instead of some big party, let's all get dressed up in our Sunday best and go for lunch at a fancy restaurant for my birthday! This is going to be a formal event, so please come dressed in your Sunday best.See also: SundaySunday bestone's best clothing, which one would wear to church. (See also Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.) We are in our Sunday best, ready to go. I got mud on my Sunday best.See also: SundaySunday bestOne's finest clothes, as in They were all in their Sunday best for the photographer. This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes ( meeting here meaning "prayer meeting"). [Mid-1800s] See also: SundaySunday best n. one’s best clothing, which one would wear to church. We are in our Sunday best, ready to go. See also: Sundaybest bib and tucker, one'sDressed in one’s finest clothes. A tucker was an ornamental piece of lace worn by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to cover the neck and shoulders. A bib was either a fancy frill worn at the front of a man’s shirt or an actual formal shirt front. Their pairing with best dates from the mid-eighteenth century. The word bib appeared in print in America in 1795: “The old gentleman put on his best bib and band [i.e., collar]” (The Art of Courting, Newburyport, Massachusetts). A later locution, dating from the mid-nineteenth century, is one’s Sunday best, also known as Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. It refers to an era when one’s finery was reserved for church (or “prayer meeting”). These Americanisms sound archaic today. See also gussied up.See also: and, bibSunday best
Synonyms for Sunday bestnoun the best attire you have which is worn to church on SundaySynonymsRelated Words |