gownsman

[ gounz-muhn ]

/ ˈgaʊnz mən /

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noun, plural gowns·men.

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

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Origin of gownsman

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

Words nearby gownsman

go without saying, go with the flow, gowk, gowl, gown, gownsman, go wrong, gox, goy, Goya, Goya, Francisco

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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
Possibly I myself was the one sole gownsman who had not then found my attention fixed by his most heterogeneous reputation.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey--Vol. 1|Thomas de Quincey
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 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

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