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noun

Gown n.

A loose, flowing upper garment; especially:

(a)

The ordinary outer dress of a woman, especially one that is full-length/ex>.

(b)

The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military. "He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield."

(c)

A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.

Any sort of dress or garb. "He comes... in the gown of humility."

An evening gown.

The students and faculty of a college and university, as opposed to the local inhabitants not connected to the university; used often in the phrase "town and gown", referring to interactions between the university and the local townspeople; as, a town and gown dispute.

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Etymology of 'Gown'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gown" Quotes from Famous Books

... freshly arrived seafood from San Francisco, Grant tried to persuade Bridget to stop teasing him about the navigational foul-up and set him straight. He had put up with it as long as he did only because she had worn an off-shoulder yellow gown, snugly fitted, that made the uniform seem like the design of ...

— A Fine Fix • R. C. Noll

... streams and hillocks clear, in double folds, embrace; E'en Fairyland, forsooth, transcend they do in elegance and grace! The "Fragrant Plant" the theme is of the ballad fan, green-made. Like drooping plum-bloom flap the lapel red and the Hsiang gown. From prosperous times must have been handed down those pearls and jade. What bliss! the fairy on the jasper terrace will come down! When to our prayers she yields, this glorious park to contemplate, No mortal must e'er be allowed these grounds ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

... serge gown, with a cowl, like a mendicant monk, and as they approached he put out ...

— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng

... But I don't think I should have much enjoyment with a cheap wife. I like cold mutton and candle-ends myself very well, but I do not love feminine economies. Family washing-bills kept at the lowest, a maid-of-all-work with an allowance in lieu of beer, and a dark morning gown for household work, would not, if I know myself, add fuel to the ardour of my conjugal affection. I love women dearly; I like them to be near me; but then I like them to be nice. When a woman is nasty, she is ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... hundred altogether, including the reverend gentleman's photograph albums and college and school text-books. This suggestion of learning was enforced by the little wooden shield bearing a college coat-of-arms that hung over the looking-glass, and by a photograph of Mr. Gabbitas in cap and gown in an Oxford frame that adorned the opposite wall. And in the middle of that wall stood his writing-desk, which I knew to have pigeon-holes when it was open, and which made him seem not merely cultured but literary. At that he ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

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