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
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
Women, young girls, and children predominated, all dressed in their "Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander
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)
They trooped in, peasant girls from fourteen to twenty years old, dressed in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and headed by the mayor's daughter.
From Average Americans by Roosevelt, Theodore
