gownsman

[ gounz-muhn ]

noun

, plural gowns·men.

1. a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gownsman¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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Possibly I myself was the one sole gownsman who had not then found my attention fixed by his most heterogeneous reputation.

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To the instruction of a woman she added the logic of a gownsman and the love of a saint.

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The gownsman and financier would find himself better off in France than elsewhere.

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

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