gownsman
noun
a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.
gownsmen
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pluralof gownsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course, pretty nearly all the sporting characters among the gownsmen were there, the distance from the University being so trifling.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
For our Lowland beggars—even the gownsmen themselves, who beg by patent—had a louting, flattering way with them, and if you gave them a plaek and asked change, would very civilly return you a boddle.
From Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Strings of gownsmen, arm-in-arm, parade the Long Walk, observing with a sort of good-natured envy their more favoured fellows, on whose arms lean some of the fairest and noblest of England's daughters.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
I saw several gownsmen pass down the street, and I sallied forth again.
From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc
