Gown
[gaʊn] or [ɡaʊn]
Definition
(noun.) a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions.
(noun.) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions.
(noun.) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations.
(noun.) the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; 'the relations between town and gown are always sensitive'.
(verb.) dress in a gown.
Edited by Daniel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A loose, flowing upper garment
(n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
(n.) Any sort of dress or garb.
Checker: Rosalind
Definition
n. a woman's upper garment: a long loose robe worn officially by clergymen lawyers college lecturers &c.—v.t. to invest with the gown.—adj. Gowned dressed in a gown.—ns. Gown′man Gowns′man one whose professional habit is a gown as a divine or lawyer and esp. a member of an English university.
Edited by Daisy
Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream that you are in your nightgown, you will be afflicted with a slight illness. If you see others thus clad, you will have unpleasant news of absent friends. Business will receive a back set. If a lover sees his sweetheart in her night gown, he will be superseded. See Cloths.
Checker: Osbert
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Lat. gaudium, joy. A thing of beauty and a joy forever; if from Paris, generally an article of some Worth.
Typist: Stanley
Examples
- I fancy I am rather a favourite; he took notice of my gown. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sewed into my gown,' with her hand upon her breast, 'is just enough to lay me in the grave. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She put on a night-cap and gown. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I took off my silk gown to begin with, because the slightest noise from it on that still night might have betrayed me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She put a white gown on me and pinned it at the neck in back with a safety pin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Your wife might get her some ear-rings, or a new gown, or some such truck, to make up with her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- After leaving Miss Rachel's room, I stopped a moment on one of the landings, by myself, to see if I had got the paint-stain by any chance on MY gown. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The book, however, had been left in the billiard-room, so I pulled on my dressing-gown and started off to get it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here is a night-gown for you to wear. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Mr. Bhaer left it all to her, so she chose a pretty gown for Tina, and then ordered out the shawls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Here, Sarah, come to Miss Bennet this moment, and help her on with her gown. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I don't like your gown, but I do think you are just splendid. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She couldn't wear one of your gowns, could she, by any letting down, or such matter? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She is eighteen, or at least seventeen--old enough to know all about gowns, petticoats, and chaussures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Only as I have neither husband nor child to give me natural duties, I must make myself some, in addition to ordering my gowns. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- No, I wouldn't, for the smart caps won't match the plain gowns without any trimming on them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She was quite shocked when I asked her whether wine was allowed at the second table, and she has turned away two housemaids for wearing white gowns. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She makes gowns. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But Lily wears a great many smart gowns-- I like her to be well-dressed--it's only suitable! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- How would he propose to keep Miss Sykes in gowns only? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But I've plenty of grand gowns,--a week ago, I should have said they were far too grand for anything I should ever want again. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She's a well-favoured maid enough, said Humphrey the furze-cutter, especially when she's got one of her dandy gowns on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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