Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes

Example Sentences

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I witnessed a consistent stream of voters, many dressed in either Lakers gear or Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, making their way to Staples to vote, take pictures and then walk down to a nearby restaurant for fellowship.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2020

Then Br’er Fox he up and says he ’spects he better be getting on, ’cause he doesn’t want to get his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes wet.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)

The children, dressed in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, were sitting in the high-backed pews in solemn silence, while a reverend gentleman was delivering a solemn exhortation to gratitude and goodness.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

It is much prettier than I could write, even if I had my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes on, and I don't know who did write it.

From Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Garis, Howard Roger

With some of these the conversion brought lasting change; with others it provided a garment of piety to be donned with "Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes" and doffed as irksome on week days.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell