Geneva gown

American  

noun

1. a loose, large-sleeved, black preaching gown worn by members of the Protestant clergy: so named from its use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva, Switzerland.

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Geneva gown British  

noun

1. a long loose black gown with very wide sleeves worn by academics or Protestant clerics

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Etymology

Origin of Geneva gown

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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Geneva gown

So with the directions as to vestments—whether they are the Eucharistic vestments, ordered by the "Ornaments Rubric," or the preacher's Geneva gown not ordered anywhere.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by Holmes, E. E.

The Geneva gown supplies the grand lines lacking in the secular costume of the period, and indues the patriot with the silken cocoon of the Calvinist.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various

From the fast-gathering mists that now threaten those receding years, surviving ones still rescue images of the precentor's ruffled locks, swept by the pentecostal swirl—so seemed it to his worshippers—of Dr. Grant's Geneva gown.

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.

When my father saw me in a Geneva gown, his eyes were filled with tears.

From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander

When I came out of chapel next morning, I found Hofman on the terrace waiting for me, and with him Master Dietz wearing his Geneva gown and a sour face.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.