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Sunday-go-to-meeting
adjective
used of clothes, suitable for wearing to church US, 1831
Intentionally rural.- Just felt like putting on my Sunday-go-to-meeting suit. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 153, 1954
- Then I put on my Sunday-go-to-meetin’ clothes, my new sixty-dollar Stetson and my seventy-dollar Justin boots and my four-dollar Levis. — Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280, p. 5, 1964
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 111, 1970
- Mr. Diane Holt, almost Easter Sunday sharp, stands on the front steps of her apartment pulling on her white Sunday-go-to-meeting gloves[.] — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 50, 1972
- He has costumed himself as an out of fashion Sunday-go-to-meeting silk gloved elderly woman with grey riddled long wig, black bustled dress, over trousers, and ostrich feather plumed floppy chapeau[.] — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 71, 1978
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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