gownsman
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What if the schoolboy, grown into a gownsman, shall contribute his share to a set of “Arundines Cami” or “Prolusiones Etonienses?”
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles
This meant little in the Middle Ages, when all intellectual callings were clerical, when at Oxford gownsman and clerk, townsman and laic, were convertible terms.
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin
Up sprang Inspector Fluffy, Up Sergeant Jaggard rose, And playfully with staff he tapped A gownsman on the nose.
From Cambridge Pieces by Butler, Samuel
This was an insult in which every gownsman felt himself involved.
From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington
A soldier who ran away from a battle and a gownsman who pushed himself into a battle were the two objects which most strongly excited William's spleen.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath.
From Time Magazine Archive
What the gownsmen intended for a frolic developed into a riot, thanks to the national love of a row and the complicated feuds which were continually breaking forth.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
So that not only the gownsmen but the townsmen were ready to welcome them with cheers, and to acclaim them eagerly as the queens of the day.
From For the Faith by Everett-Green, Evelyn
The meadows below were thronged with gownsmen from the various colleges, as well as by crowds of townsfolk, all in holiday attire, who had streamed out of the gates to hear the singing.
From For the Faith by Everett-Green, Evelyn
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