英语词汇“go、to、meeting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

go-to-meeting

释义

go-to-meeting, a. and n. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
[See go v. VIII.]
A. adj.
a. Suitable for use on Sundays or at church; spec. of clothes: suitable for wearing to church. Cf. Sunday-go-to-meeting (Sunday n. 1 c).
†b. Of people: church-going (obs.).
1790R. Tyler Contrast iii. i, All my tunes [are] go to meeting tunes.1800T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems (1806) 115 Each scrapes, huzzas, and kicks and bounces, Waves high her go-to-meeting cap.1835Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. ix, One of those blue-noses, with his go-to-meetin clothes on.1853Harper's Mag. VII. 562/2 He was looked up to with emulation..by the ‘go-to-meeting’ young folk of the town.1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. v, I want to give you a true picture..not a kid-glove and go-to-meeting-coat picture.1868G. G. Channing Early Recoll. Newport, R.I. 83, I was quite a go-to-meeting lad.1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 120 Very few men look their best in their Go-to-Meeting clothes.1933O. Jespersen Essentials Eng. Gram. vii. 74 A run-away match, go-to-meeting clothes, etc.1937C. M. Wilson Aroostook 41 A final rinsing for Sunday shirts and go-to-meeting dresses.
†B. n. A go-to-meeting garment; usu. pl. Obs.
[1831Boston Transcript 12 Dec. 1/1 They tossed on their ‘Sunday-go-to-meetings’, and crossed into Jarsey.]1841Chicago Morning Democrat 26 Feb. 2/1 Their Servant's a regular ‘Miss Nancy with her go-to-meetings on’.1878R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd 70 She didn't never have more'n one caliker gown to her name, an' an old alipacky for a go-to-meeting.1881― Somebody's Neighbors 265 He was gone and his shirt an' go-to-meetin's too.

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