Lexicographical Neighbors of Gownboys
Literary usage of Gownboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of W. M. Thackeray by Herman Charles Merivale, Frank Thomas Marzials (1891)
"... who had just received a nomination for the school, that the days of breeches
were over, and that the gownboys had been consigned to trousers instead. ..."
2. Lectures and Essays by Henry Nettleship (1895)
"Next summer he gained the Senior Scholarship and passed into ' gownboys,' where
his chief friends were, Prof. Jebb, for whom he kept always a warm regard; ..."
3. Our Public Schools: Their Influence on English History; Charter House, Eton by James George Cotton Minchin (1901)
"... and "gownboys," although no gowns are now worn by the scholars on the Foundation.
When a Carthusian writes that he dined at "Verites (afterwards ..."
4. My Colonial Service in British Guiana, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Fiji, Australia by George William Des Vœux (1903)
"... 1853, when, being in the sixth form and head monitor of gownboys, it fell to
me on Founder's Day to deliver the annual Latin oration. ..."
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