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gownsman

[ gounz-muhn ]

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gownsman1

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

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Example Sentences

The complete liberty enjoyed by him as a gownsman killed the habit of work so forcibly inculcated at his school.

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.

In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.

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