gownsman

[ gounz-muh n ]

/ ˈgaʊnz mən /

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

Words nearby gownsman

First recorded in 1570–80; gown + 's¹ + man¹

To the instruction of a woman she added the logic of a gownsman and the love of a saint.
The Young People's Wesley|W. McDonald
The complete liberty enjoyed by him as a gownsman killed the habit of work so forcibly inculcated at his school.
Rowlandson's Oxford|A. Hamilton Gibbs
The gownsman and financier would find himself better off in France than elsewhere.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 9 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.
Ruskin Relics|W. G. Collingwood

The gownsman, not knowing what had occurred, called next morning at the yard, and asked to see Mr. Fordham.
Joe Miller's Jests, With Copious Additions|Various