Definition of "wedding-clothes" [wedding-clothes]

• Garments made for the occasion of a wedding, especially those of the bride or the bridegroom, and either worn at the ceremony and festivities, or prepared as necessary for the changed conditions of life. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "So Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away somewhere where no one could find them."
• "Crosbie — “that he had to pay for my wedding-clothes.”"
• "The day after he heard of the engagement Uncle Bat went to town, and, on his return, he gave Gertrude �0 to buy her wedding-clothes, and half that sum to her mother, in order that the thing might go off, as he expressed himself, ‘slip-slap, and no mistake.’"