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)

Further reading

• “roast-meat clothes n.” under “roast meat n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present