• Sundayfied

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    Sundayfied

    1. Made suitable for a Sunday.
      • 1854, The Jubilee Harbinger for 1854The omnibusses, though working, poor vehicles! look spruce and "Sundayfied." The horses have bunches of ribbons in their ears, and the coachmen carry pinks or dog-roses in their button-holes, or in their mouths.
      • 1879, Sunday Afternoon (volume 3, page 253)Every now and then was a distribution of new singing books, bearing fantastical names and filled with "modern music," which for the most part were rollicking melodies, as if Offenbach's jingles had been Sundayfied.
      • 1921, John Galsworthy, To LetAll was still and Sundayfied; the lilacs in full flower scented the air.
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