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
Proctor’s Dogs or Bull-Dogs, the two “runners” or officials who accompany a university proctor in his rounds, to give chase to recalcitrant gownsmen.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Saint Bede's is, as I said, a minor college, rarely numbering more than fifty gownsmen at a time, and maintaining, both as to sports and honors, a mild mediocrity.
From Christian's Mistake by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The gownsmen were as riotous then as now; and as one or two things happened to irritate their lively temper, a row soon became imminent.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
"Then there is one man in the world more thoughtless than you: do many of the gownsmen go there?"
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman
