go-to-meeting
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of go-to-meeting
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
Example Sentences
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Led by Takahashi and Kataoka, resplendent in dusty morning coats, 800 villagers crammed the town hall to attend Mass, while hundreds more, in their best go-to-meeting clothes, waited patiently outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore neither wig nor gown, and had not even put on his Sunday go-to-meeting clothes.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
Mary-'Gusta noticed that she was not, as usual, garbed in gingham, but was arrayed in her best go-to-meeting gown.
From Mary-'Gusta by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Why, you might as well say we ought to pull down Westminster Abbey, and put up a go-to-meeting shop with churchwarden windows; or never read Shakespeare, but only Sheridan Knowles.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
"One good thing," said the cheerful Sid, "we won't be apt to ruin our best Sunday go-to-meeting glad rags by getting them soaked."
From Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School by Allen Chapman
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