endimanched
adjEtymology From French endimancher + -ed.
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Dressed up in one's Sunday best.
- 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.1845, Angus B. Beach, “Oracles”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, part 3, London, page 234:
- 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'?1931, Life and Letters, page 93: