gownsman
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The gownsman used those weapons appropriate to his office which best touched the sensibilities and won the adhesion of a rude audience.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
Why should he see that I was not a gownsman?
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
Possibly I myself was the one sole gownsman who had not then found my attention fixed by his most heterogeneous reputation.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James
Captain Gulliver, though a sailor, I would have you to know, was a gownsman of Cambridge: so says Swift, who knew more about the Captain than anybody now-a-days.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
Why should he know that I was not a gownsman?
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
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