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endimanched

endimanched adjective: dressed up in one's Sunday best.

Adjective

endimanched (not comparable)

  1. Dressed up in one's Sunday best.
    • You may meet with them by dozens near the Achilles statue in Hyde Park, on fine Sundays evenings in the season, each one explaining to a wondering circle of country cousins, or endimanched city clerks, the arms upon the carriages as they slowly defile past, and true names and titles of the...1845, Angus B. Beach, “Oracles”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, part 3, London, page 234
    • Do you not catch before these Fontainebleau Venuses and Dianas the echo of a titter, as of some Parisian commercial traveller stopping his adoring and endimanched country cousins in front of La Source—'tiens, une jolie femme toute nue'?1931, Life and Letters, page 93

Origin of endimanched

From French endimancher + -ed.

Questions about endimanched

What does endimanched mean?
Endimanched means dressed up in one's Sunday best.
What part of speech is endimanched?
Endimanched is an adjective.

Words near endimanched in the dictionary

  1. endicts
  2. endie
  3. endies
  4. endif
  5. endifs
  6. endimanched
  7. endin'
  8. ending
  9. ending in
  10. ending in smoke
  11. ending in tears

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