gownsman

American  

[gounz-muhn] / ˈgaʊnz mən /

noun

plural

gownsmen

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

---

Etymology

Origin of gownsman

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

Example Sentences

So she, in her goldlaced riding-habit, had come too to the tryst that she might look on her hero once again; and for propriety's sake had brought as escort Papa Curran and gentle Sara, who, though only sixteen, was already casting timid sheep's-eyes at the younger of the two Emmetts--a gownsman at this time in the University.

From Project Gutenberg

Snob, snob, n. a vulgar person, esp. one who apes gentility, a tuft-hunter: a shoemaker: a workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, a rat, one who will not join a strike: a townsman, as opposed to a gownsman, in Cambridge slang.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

The Snob, Gownsman, National Omnibus, National Standard, The Constitutional, and Fraser's Magazine all contain essays, articles, or tales from his able pen, which, but for Mr. Johnson's patient efforts, might have been lost in course of time, when the evidence to identify them would have been wanting.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Sir George Dasent has told me that the President once asked him, "Did you ever hear, sir, of Gownsman's Gallows?"

From Project Gutenberg