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Definition of Gowning
1. gown [v] - See also: gown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gowning
Literary usage of Gowning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise and Progress of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh by Alexander Heron (1903)
"... Merchant Maiden Hospital—Apprentice Dues —Weighty Reasons for allowing an
Assistant to Resign—A Treasurer's Conscience—Clothing the Clerk and " gowning" ..."
2. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1876)
"... all using of plaids in the Kirk by readers or ministers, namely in the time
of their ministry or using of their office; all kinds of gowning cutting, ..."
3. The Legal News by James Kirby (1897)
"be equivalent to the time of one judge, 583 hours spent in gowning and ...
days of a judge's time be better spent in writing opinions than in gowning and ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... [through the skie; That made an eccho i» the ayre, and gowning Thy voice was
loud, and thus it said, come R. with happy dayes, [thee with praise. ..."
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