gownsman

American  

[gounz-muhn] / ˈgaʊnz mən /

noun

• gownsmen
  plural

1. a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• gownsmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gownsman

First recorded in 1570–80; gown + 's ¹ + man

Example Sentences

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gownsman gownsmen

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

This meant little in the Middle Ages, when all intellectual callings were clerical, when at Oxford gownsman and clerk, townsman and laic, were convertible terms.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin

What if the schoolboy, grown into a gownsman, shall contribute his share to a set of “Arundines Cami” or “Prolusiones Etonienses?”

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

Before he could reply, the colonel and his wife drew near, and Charles quickly introduced the young gownsman, whom he had seen more than once, and of whom he had heard favourable accounts.

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.

Not a gownsman was present, except Hector Mowbray; and surely he was above the character of an informer?

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saint Bede's is, as I said, a minor college, rarely numbering more than fifty gownsmen at a time, and maintaining, both as to sports and honors, a mild mediocrity.

From Christian's Mistake by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Of course, pretty nearly all the sporting characters among the gownsmen were there, the distance from the University being so trifling.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

Strings of gownsmen, arm-in-arm, parade the Long Walk, observing with a sort of good-natured envy their more favoured fellows, on whose arms lean some of the fairest and noblest of England's daughters.

From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.

Among certain gownsmen, a gown that bears the marks of much service; "a thing of shreds and patches."—Gradus ad Cantab.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer