gowan
noun
any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.
gowany
-
a word derived from
gowan.
Example Sentences
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“My heather land, my heather land, Though fairer lands there be, Thy gowany braes in early days Were gowden ways to me.”
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
Again the laverock seeks the sky, And warbles, dimly seen; And summer views, wi' sunny joy, Her gowany robe o' green.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
In gowany glens thy burnie strays, Where bonie lasses bleach their claes, Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi' hawthorns gray, Where blackbirds join the shepherd's lays, At close o' day.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
"Gien ye wad sit doon a meenute, mem," returned Donal, "—here's a bonnie gowany spot—I wad read a bit till ye, an' see gien ye likit it, afore I tellt ye the name o' 't."
From Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
In gowany glens thy burnie strays, Where bonnie lasses bleach their claes; Or trots by hazelly shaws and braes, Wi’ hawthorns gray, Where blackbirds join the shepherd’s lays At close o’ day.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
