Tradition in Catholic churches, which had (and some still have) religious images of the Virgin and saints to wear, to change their clothes according to the occasion. See to be left to dress saints ("to keep a woman single").
FRANCISCO JAVIER OSÉS SOLA
In the past, this expression was used when it was said of a woman that she was going to remain single, that she was not going to marry
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