| 单词 | sunday-going |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSunday-going Sunday-going adj. (of items of clothing) for wearing on Sundays, best; cf. Sunday-go-to-meeting adj., Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > [adjective] > worn on Sunday Sunday-going1824 go-to-meeting1835 1824 C. B. Southey in Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 218/1 A comely and a stately dame is the lady of Farmer Buckwheat, when, as now, she paces by his side, resplendent in her Sunday-going garb. 1840 Peter Parley's Ann. 270 A band-box containing Miss Mainwaring's Sunday-going bonnet. 1881 F. Caddy Lares & Penates xv. 287 He kept himself and his landlady before, and all the landlady's poor kin, and bought her smart Sunday-going bonnet, and he finds it cheaper to buy his wife a pretty gingham gown. 1933 G. W. Bullett Quick & Dead ix. 103 He must, I suppose, have possessed more sober and Sunday-going clothes. < as lemmas |
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