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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Meet me on the gowan lea, Bonnie Mary, sweetest Mary; Meet me on the gowan lea, My ain, my artless Mary.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
“Is it the real gowan, ‘that glints on bank and brae’?
From Janet's Love and Service 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
But as it fell out on last Hallow-e’en,When the seely court was ridin’ by,The queen lighted down on a gowan bank,Near by the tree where I wont to lye.
From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew
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 Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
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