roast-meat clothes
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A reference to the Sunday roast.
Noun[edit]
roast-meat clothes pl (plural only)
- (dated, slang) Sunday best.
- 1889, “Simple Simon's misfortunes and his wife Margery's cruelty”, in Robert Hays Cunningham, editor, Amusing Prose Chap Books[1]:
- But the morning was ushered in with a mighty storm, only because Simon put on his roast-meat clothes.
Descendants[edit]
- →? German: Bratenrock (calque)