gownsman [gounz-muh n] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural gowns·men. a person who wears a gown indicating office, profession, or status. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of gownsman First recorded in 1570–80; gown + ‘s1 + man1 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for gownsman Historical Examples of gownsman
To the instruction of a woman she added the logic of a gownsman and the love of a saint.
W. McDonald
The gownsman, not knowing what had occurred, called next morning at the yard, and asked to see Mr. Fordham.
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In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman’s interests.
W. G. Collingwood
The gownsman and financier would find himself better off in France than elsewhere.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 9 (of 10)
Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
The complete liberty enjoyed by him as a gownsman killed the habit of work so forcibly inculcated at his school.
A. Hamilton Gibbs