Sonntagsstaat

German

Etymology

From Sonntag (“Sunday”) +‎ -s- +‎ Staat. The latter is word is used in the archaic sense “condition, appearance, clothing”.

Noun

Sonntagsstaat m (genitive Sonntagstaats or Sonntagsstaates, no plural)

  1. Sunday best (a person’s finest clothes, particularly those worn to church on Sunday)
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