Sunday-go-to-meeting

[ suhn-dey-goh-tuh-meet-n, -mee-ting, -dee- ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. most presentable; best:

   Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sunday-go-to-meeting¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

Women, young girls, and children predominated, all dressed in their "Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes.

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Perhaps they looked funny huddling down on the compartment floor in their best Sunday-go-to-meeting uniforms.

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She used to dress up like a queen, and her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes were the genuine things and genteel all over.

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They had a sort of 'Sunday-go-to-meeting' look: kind of smug!

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I spose those were their best cloes, werent theytheir real, Sunday-go-to-meeting frocks?

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