KT04 Word Line
いっちょうら
一張羅
Itchōra
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Meaning
one's best outfit
The finest piece of clothing one owns, kept for special occasions. Originally it also meant the only garment one had, with nothing to change into.
Example
一張羅のスーツを着て結婚式に出た。
I wore my one good suit to the wedding.
Origin
One theory holds that it is a corruption of icchōrō (一挺蝋), a single candle with no spare. This is said to have come to be written 一張羅 in the sense of a single garment of ra (thin silk). An example appears in the ukiyo-zōshi Nanshoku Ōkagami of 1687.