endimanched

English

Etymology

From French endimancher +‎ -ed.

Adjective

endimanched (not comparable)

1. Dressed up in their Sunday best.
   • 1845, Angus B. Beach, “Oracles”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist‎^[1], part 3, London, page 234:

     You may meet with them by dozens near the Achilles statue in Hyde Park, on fine Sundays evenings in the season, each one explaining to a wondering circle of country cousins, or endimanched city clerks, the arms upon the carriages as they slowly defile past, and true names and titles of the occupants.

   • 1931, Life and Letters‎^[2], page 93:

     Do you not catch before these Fontainebleau Venuses and Dianas the echo of a titter, as of some Parisian commercial traveller stopping his adoring and endimanched country cousins in front of La Source—'tiens, une jolie femme toute nue'?

Translations

dressed up in their Sunday best

• French: endimanché (fr)
• German: endimanchiert
• Italian: indomenicato
• Portuguese: endomingado
• Spanish: endomingado (es)
• Swedish: söndagsfin (sv)