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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O leeze me o' gowany swaird, An' the blink o' the bonnie new mune!
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy
But as it fell out on last Hallow-even, When the seely court was ridin’ by, The queen lighted down on a gowany bank, Nae far frae the tree where I wont to lye.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
“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 Stables, Gordon
In our auld, auld days, like gowany braes, Our love unchang'd, has its youthfu' form.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
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 Burns, Robert
