gowan
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gowan
1560–70; earlier gollan < Old Norse gollinn golden
Example Sentences
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Flows Yarrow sweet, as sweet flows Tweed, As green its grass, its gowan as yellow, As sweet smells on its braes the birk, The apple frae the rock as mellow.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk, lowly, unseen; For there, lightly tripping, among the wild flowers, A-list'ning the linnet, aft wanders my Jean.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Down ayont the gowan knowe, bonnie Peggie, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
Yes, the gowan, and the blue bell, and many a one beside.
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
Flows Yarrow sweet? as sweet, as sweet flows Tweed, As green its grass, its gowan as yellow, As sweet smells on its braes the birk, The apple frae its rocks as mellow.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
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