gowned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ɡaʊnd/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *gunader. Late Latin gunna Old French gounebor. Middle English gowne English gown English -ed English gowned From gown + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wearing a gown.
Pirates, buccaneers, the gowned ladies of the ancient pastoral – all the traditional subjects of imperial history – are among the images that take shape.
2001, Patricia Ismond, “Society and Nationhood in the Caribbean: Towards Another Life”, in Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 258:The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].
1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2:Deliberately, almost ‘augustly,’ the gowned and mortar-boarded figures followed one another through the great red turnstile and filed into the chamber beyond.
1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 18, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gownd | alternative, archaic | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
surgical-gowned · surgically gowned · bed-gowned · evening-gowned · bedgowned · nightgowned · ballgowned · well-gowned · night-gowned · begowned · teagowned · tea-gowned · dressing-gowned · ball-gowned · be-gowned