glad rags

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Formal attire, dress clothes. plural,plural-only,slang
    — 1896, Henry M. Blossom, Jr., Checkers: A Hard-luck Story, Grosset & Dunlap, page 39, “But say, you wouldn’t have known me if you’d seen me here with my wife that time—my glad rags on, a stove-pipe lid, patent leather kicks and a stone on my front. […]
  2. Stylish clothing. plural,plural-only,slang
    — 1969, Iceberg Slim, Mama Black Widow: A Story of the South’s Black Underworld, Holloway House Publishing (2004), →ISBN, page 183, Lock Jaw said, “Bessie, how would you like to get dressed up in a grand worth of glad rags and go to a fancy blowout with me?”

词形变化

gladrags alternative

词源

US origin, late 19th c.
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