gownsman

[ gounz-muhn ]

noun,plural gowns·men.
  1. a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.

Origin of gownsman

1
First recorded in 1570–80; gown + 's1 + man

Words Nearby gownsman

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How to use gownsman in a sentence

  • 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.

  • To the instruction of a woman she added the logic of a gownsman and the love of a saint.

  • 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