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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Yes, the gowan, and the blue bell, and many a one beside.
From Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
The gowan glitters on the sward, The lav'rock's in the sky, And collie on my plaid keeps ward, And time is passing by.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Whaur the wee white gowan wi' reid reid tips, Was as white as her cheek and as reid as her lips.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George
Sweet smells the birk, green grows, green grows the grass, Yellow on Yarrow's bank the gowan; Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowin'!
From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
And as for the thistle, with that hostile, spiteful, unbrotherly motto, Nemo me impune lacessit,—Scotland shall henceforth assume as her floral type the simple "gowan fine."
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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