gownsman
English
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Noun
gownsman (plural gownsmen)
- One whose professional habit is a gown, such as a divine, a lawyer, or a member of certain English universities.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- The two gownsmen lowered the rigid body. It lay straight as a board, supported by no more than its head on the chair-back, and its heels on the ground.
- 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
- (archaic) A civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
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