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

Some of these mounds were miniature peaks of clear sand, so steep and dry that you could slide all the way down from top to bottom, and do no harm to your Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

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)

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

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