Sunday girl

English

Noun

Sunday girl (plural Sunday girls)

  1. (US, obsolete, slang) girlfriend [from 1884]
    Are you taking your Sunday girl to the dance?
    • 1884, Edwin A. Frear, From Pier 39:
      Just as one is rounded, too late to entirely avoid it, is seen exactly at the turn a single chaise containing a youth and his Sunday girl.
    • 1960, Arizona and the West:
      In twenty-four hours the pot had filled to three dollars, and Charlie, who was going to town to see his Sunday girl, was delegated to subscribe to “some good newspaper.”
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