gowan
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gowan
1560–70; earlier gollan < Old Norse gollinn golden
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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' listening the linnet, oft wanders my Jean.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
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 Charles Rogers
The stalk indeed is slender, but it sways without danger of breaking in the blast; in the calm it reposes as gently as the gowan at its root.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The gowan may spring by the clear-rinnin' burnie, The cushat may coo in the green woods again.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
But as it fell out on last Hallowe'en, When the Seely Court was ridin' by, The Queen lighted down on a gowan bank, Nae far frae the tree where I wont to lye.
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
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