Adjective : Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. From Dictionary.com.
I tried on every fancy Sunday-go-to-meeting hat they had. From Wordnik.com. [2001-05-12 4:19 p.m.] Reference
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, looked across at each other very kindly. From Wordnik.com. [Master Sunshine] Reference
Even at the beach she and my grandpa wore there Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes as they sat on a blanket under their beach umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [The Glory of Grandparents | The Stiletto Gang] Reference
There was so much of the religious faking mixed in with the old piece that it caught the Sunday-go-to-meeting crowd and drew them as a molasses barrel will draw flies. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
When I come up against an occasion that requires me to dress up in my Sunday-go-to-meeting finery, I go with black jeans, denim shirt, blue cloth tie and black leather vest. From Wordnik.com. [Men’s Recovery Project | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
I won't put on my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes when I go a walking with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
Folks in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes mingle with people wearing bathing suits. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Wilmington Star News] Reference
So she concluded to put on her Sunday-go-to-meeting gown, as she called her best dress. From Wordnik.com. [Five Little Peppers and their Friends] Reference
Women, young girls, and children predominated, all dressed in their "Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference
Sunday-go-to-meeting suits and put the fibre things on; and then we went down to the cove to look at ourselves in the water. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Uncle Wiggily's Travels] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Bishop's Secret] Reference
Those here in their proper Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and those out on the highways and the hedges, somewhere working for their Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Secrets] Reference
A Sunday-go-to-meeting town like Ocean Grove might seem an odd place for a Saturday-go-to-hell kind of guy like "Southside Johnny" Lyon. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
"Get your Sunday-go-to-meeting dress on," she commanded, hunching a shawl over a rheumatic shoulder and motion-ing the girl out of the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice] Reference
Seeing this, in despair the parson's wife took the matter of hooking up into her own hands, and before long the Sunday-go-to-meeting gown could be said to be fairly on. From Wordnik.com. [Five Little Peppers and their Friends] Reference
The lower floor was very well crowded, and it was almost a relief to the men actually at work as firemen that so many other men kept well back because they were in their "Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way] Reference
"Sunday-go-to-meeting" dresses of the three little Anthony girls were lent to the children of a poor family to wear at the funeral of their mother, while she and her sisters had to wear their old ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference
The blood comes out of your clothes easily with one washing with cold water, even out of nice Sunday-go-to-meeting outfits like I was wearing (I was woefully overdressed compared to the rest of the patrons). From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
Yours is the first one, "said the usher, a gray-haired woman in a Sunday-go-to-meeting dress of dark blue. From Wordnik.com. [A Corpse is a Corpse]
It's your very best Sunday-go-to-meeting dress, and you won't have another, I can tell you, for six months. ". From Wordnik.com. [Light O' the Morning] Reference
Sunday-go-to-meeting dress on, "she commanded, hunching a shawl over a rheumatic shoulder and motioning the girl out of the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice] Reference
Bobby screwed up and your father didn’t just turn his back on him, he condemned him out of hand at Sunday-go-to-meeting in front of all your neighbors and friends. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
Any day now, Michelle Obama’s handlers will have her glued into one of those Sunday-go-to-meeting Baptist grandma crown hats while smiling vapidly for hours at a time. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » Whither thou goest … oh, never mind] Reference
See what sort of a shine you can give 'em for Sunday-go-to-meeting to-morrow morning. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Instance] Reference
Sunday-go-to-meeting coat. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Girl in Ten Thousand] Reference
Got your Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes on?. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
"Case of Sunday-go-to-meeting, isn't it?" said lickford. From Wordnik.com. [The Cock-House at Fellsgarth] Reference
Sunday-go-to-meeting look he creates a distinctly odd effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
Sunday-go-to-meeting decency make a strange complex impression, half-love and half-hate. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem of China] Reference
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