roast-meat clothes

English

Etymology

A reference to the Sunday roast.

Noun

roast-meat clothes pl (plural only)

  1. (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

  • →? German: Bratenrock (calque)

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