CULTURETECHLENSsunday's best
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Combined Graph record U-00794 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0393. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Farlex page aggregating the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, McGraw-Hill, and Farlex idiom dictionaries (fetched in full): '(one's) Sunday best — One's very best clothes, as one would wear to a Sunday church service'; American Heritage: 'One's finest clothes... This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. [Mid-1800s].'
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Farlex page aggregating the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, McGraw-Hill, and Farlex idiom dictionaries (fetched in full): '(one's) Sunday best — One's very best clothes, as one would wear to a Sunday church service'; American Heritage: 'One's finest clothes... This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. [Mid-1800s].'
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Farlex page aggregating the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, McGraw-Hill, and Farlex idiom dictionaries (fetched in full): '(one's) Sunday best — One's very best clothes, as one would wear to a Sunday church service'; American Heritage: 'One's finest clothes... This expression alludes to reserving one's best clothes for going to church; indeed, an older idiom is Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. [Mid-1800s].'
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