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

From Time Magazine Archive

The townsmen under great provocation had seized three of the gownsmen in hospitio suo and threw them into the gaol.

From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus

The court opened at eight o'clock in the morning; and such was the interest in the case, that a mob, composed chiefly of gownsmen, besieged the doors for some time before the moment of admission.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

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

The High Street had been repeatedly lined with bayonets in order to keep down the disaffected gownsmen; and traitors pursued by the messengers of the government had been concealed in the garrets of several colleges.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron