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roast-meat clothes

roast-meat clothes noun: sunday best.

Noun

roast-meat clothes pl (plural only)

  1. (dated, plural, plural-only, slang) Sunday best.
    • But the morning was ushered in with a mighty storm, only because Simon put on his roast-meat clothes.1889, “Simple Simon's misfortunes and his wife Margery's cruelty”, in Robert Hays Cunningham, editor, Amusing Prose Chap Books

Origin of roast-meat clothes

A reference to the Sunday roast.

Questions about roast-meat clothes

What does roast-meat clothes mean?
Roast-meat clothes means sunday best.
What part of speech is roast-meat clothes?
Roast-meat clothes is a noun.

Words near roast-meat clothes in the dictionary

  1. roast pork
  2. roast porks
  3. roast up
  4. roast-beef plant
  5. roast-beef plants
  6. roast-meat clothes
  7. roastability
  8. roastable
  9. roastbeef
  10. roastbeefs
  11. roasted

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