Sunday Best

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ornament	In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche.
Ostentation	Dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_, chic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Sunday Best

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Put on your Sunday best, kids, we're going to Sears! (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner)
Lyrics	Father wears his Sunday best (Our House; performing artist: Madness) Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best (Excitable Boy; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & LeRoy P. Marinell)
Movie/TV Titles	Sunday Best (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Sunday Best

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	His Sunday best. Credit: Library of Congress.		Children of Negroes dressed in Sunday best for ceremonies, memorial services. All Saint's Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Sunday best of farmer. Boundary County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions: Sunday Best

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sunday Best

Modern Translation: Sunday Best

Language		Translations for "Sunday best"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrobat më të mira. (various references)

Arabic		‏ثياب المرء الفضلي. (various references)

Bulgarian		най-хубавите дрехи, празнична премяна, празничен костюм. (various references)

Finnish		pyhävaatteet, pyhästi. (various references)

French		habits du dimanche. (various references)

Hebrew		ב�'�"י שבת (glad rags). (various references)

Hungarian		ünneplõ ruha (glad rags). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		晴着 , 晴れ着 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はれぎ. (various references)

Pig Latin		undaysay estbay

Russian		праздничный костюм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		praznično odelo. (various references)

Spanish		traje de los domingos, ropa dominguera. (various references)

Swedish		finkläder. (various references)

Turkish		gezme giysisi, en iyi elbise (best bib and tucker, best clothe), bayramlık elbise (glad rags, holiday clothes). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Sunday Best

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-s-s-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: standbys, subdeans, subtends, unstayed, unsteady.
	-3 letters: absents, badness, bendays, bestuds, butanes, dynasts, standby, subdean, subnets, subtend, sundaes, syndets, unbased, unbated, unsated, unseats.
	-4 letters: absent, abused, abuses, anuses, assent, basest, basset, basted, bastes, beasts, beauts, beauty, benday, bendys, bestud, bundts, bunted, bunyas, bussed, busted, butane, daubes, daunts, debuts, dynast, nudest, sanest, sauted, sautes, sayest.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
sunday best	29
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Definition: Sunday Best

Expressions using "Sunday best": have only one's sunday best to wear ♦ in Sunday best. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.