endimanchedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

endimanched (not comparable)

1. Dressed up in one's Sunday best.
   • 1845, Angus B. Beach, “Oracles”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist‎, 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, 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'?