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Definition of Gownsmen
1. gownsman [n] - See also: gownsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gownsmen
Literary usage of Gownsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Universities: From the German of V. A. Huber by Victor Aimé Huber (1843)
"Political Fever in the gownsmen, especially of Oxford. ... So zealous a part did
the gownsmen take in public affairs, that once more, though on a smaller ..."
2. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley (1857)
"But it did seem strange to me, as it has to others, to find in the mouths of
almost all the gownsmen, those very same charges against the universities which ..."
3. History of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee: From Its by George Rainsford Fairbanks (1905)
"... August—Theological department inaugurated by providing for a professor of
systematic divinity—Regulations as to gownsmen adopted—Cornerstone of Hodgson ..."
4. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"Nor must it be supposed that the gownsmen are thin, study-worn, consumptive-looking
individuals. ..."
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