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
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
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
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
I must get home as soon as possible, for there is a storm coming, and I don't want to get my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes spoilt.'
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
