go-to-meeting

[ goh-tuh-meet-n, -mee-ting ]

/ ˈgoʊ təˈmit n, -ˈmi tɪŋ /

Origin of go-to-meeting

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90

go-moku, go-ped, go-round, go-slow, go-to, go-to-meeting, go-train, go/no-go, goa, goa powder, goa, daman, and diu

I won't put on my Sunday go-to-meeting clothes when I go a-walking with you.

The Wide, Wide World |Susan Warner
In the two closets of this chamber were mine hostess's cloak, best bonnet, and go-to-meeting apparel.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 |Various
I hain't no go-to-meeting clothes, that are quite up to the notch.

Highlife in New York: a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, |Ann S. Stephens
He had thought her queenly dazzling in her highly-colored "go-to-meeting" plumage of the day before.

Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) |John McElroy

Under ordinary circumstances, not more than two or three of us would require a go-to-meeting rig-out at one and the same time.

Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) |William Delisle Hay