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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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"Gown" Quotes from Famous Books

... to bed and sat in a dressing gown brushing her hair. It was long enough to reach to the middle of her back and to cover her bosom. It was very thick and wavy. Now that the scarlet was washed from her lips for the night, her eyes shone soft and clear with no relief for their almost tragic melancholy. He was ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... she exclaimed, and, a moment later she repeated the ejaculation in a drier tone and with a downward inflection. She added presently, "I'm not clever the way you are at taking hints. That's the thing it will be just as well for you both to remember." She began bruskly putting on her dressing-gown. "I'm going down-stairs to telephone to Max," she explained. "He's got the paper all drawn up, not the final contract but an agreement to sign one of the sort I told you about. I'm going to tell him that if he will bring it back with him now, I'll ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... not very expert as a lady's maid, had some difficulty in arriving at the stays through the folds of the gown, et cetera, the more so as Mrs Rainscourt was very violent in her movements, and he was not a little irritated by sundry pricks which he received from those indispensable articles of dress, which the fair sex are necessitated to use, pointing out to us that there are ...

— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... and Nancy began to awake and find out that a sailor knew how to cut a caper. After I had finished, I ran up to her to pick up her handkerchief, which I thought she had dropped, but found it was only the tail of her gown. She smiled and gave me her hand. I thought this a good beginning, and was determined to follow it up. I observed her plough-tail admirer did not half like seeing me on such a good footing with her. I had not forgotten his push, and if he had interfered ...

— A Sailor of King George • Frederick Hoffman

... as Noah. The costume, as represented in one of the little boys' arks, was simple. His father's red-lined dressing gown, turned inside ...

— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale

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