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glad rags
noun (pluralonly)

(slang) formal, Formal attire, dress clothes.

- 1896, Henry M. Blossom, Jr., Checkers: A Hard-luck Story, Grosset & Dunlap, http://books.google.com/books?id=_IY0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39&dq=%22glad+rags%22 page 39,
- :"But say, you wouldn"t have known me if you"d seen me here with my wife that time"my on, a stove-pipe lid, patent leather kicks and a stone on my front. "
- 1897 April, W. H. Carruth and Paul Wilkinson, "Dialect Word-List."No. 4", in Kansas University Quarterly, Series B:"Philology and History, Volume VI, Number 2, University of Kansas, http://books.google.com/books?id=p_MAAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA88&dq=%22glad+rags%22 page 88,
- :: "Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes."General.
- 1920, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, The Schoolmaster of Hessville, Doubleday, http://books.google.com/books?id=hKscAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA285&dq=%22glad+rags%22 page 285,
- :"" Or she"ll say, "Well, I must go now and put on my ." Glad rags yet, John! Yes, that"s what she calls her best frock! Ain"t it funny? ""
- 1935, w:Graham Greene, Graham Greene, England Made Me, Penguin Classics (1992), ISBN 0140185518, page 83
- :"I bet you are busy," he said. He paused at the door: "I shall need some money for ." Â¶ "Glad rags?" Â¶ "White tie and the rest of it."
- 2007, Brett Atkinson, Central Europe, Lonely Planet Publications, ISBN 1741043018, page 143,
- :Brno has an excellent theater and classical music, and you"re expected to put your on.
  1. (slang) stylish, Stylish clothing.
- 1969, w:Iceberg Slim, Iceberg Slim, Mama Black Widow: A Story of the South"s Black Underworld, Holloway House Publishing (2004), ISBN 0-87067-931-7, page 183,
- :Lock Jaw said, "Bessie, how would you like to get dressed up in a grand worth of and go to a fancy blowout with me?"
- 2002, Judith Clarke, Wolf on the Fold, Front Street, ISBN 1886910790, pages 41"42,
- :"She might forget," said Clightie. "You know how she does. While she's in there putting her on; she might come out, all dressed up, and not remember what she"s dressed up for."
- 2007, Anthony Ham and Alison Bing, Morocco, Lonely Planet Publications, ISBN 1740599748, page 85,
- :Put on your and git down with the in-crowd at Casablanca"s hip Boulevard de la Corniche (p101)

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