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Sunday-best

Sunday-best is the alternative spelling of Sunday best.

Meaning of Sunday best

Noun

Sunday best (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) 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 best1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 83

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What is Sunday-best the alternative spelling of?
Sunday-best is the alternative spelling of Sunday best.

Words near Sunday-best in the dictionary

  1. Sunday scaries
  2. Sunday school
  3. Sunday schools
  4. Sunday strip
  5. Sunday strips
  6. Sunday-best
  7. Sunday-go-to-meeting
  8. Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
  9. Sundayed
  10. Sundayfied
  11. Sundaying

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