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Gown

//ɡaʊn// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A loose, flowing upper garment.
2
a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions wordnet
3
A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
4
outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions wordnet
5
The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
"VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne, You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne, […]"

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protective garment worn by surgeons during operations wordnet
7
The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
8
lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women wordnet
9
The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace. metonymically
"In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war."
10
the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located wordnet
11
A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
12
Any sort of dress or garb.
13
The robe worn by a surgeon.

Verb

1
To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
2
dress in a gown wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna.

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