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gowned

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɡaʊnd/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English gown English -ed English gowned From gown + -ed.

  1. Wearing a gown.

    Deliberately, almost ‘augustly,’ the gowned and mortar-boarded figures followed one another through the great red turnstile and filed into the chamber beyond.

    The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English gown English -ed English gowned From gown + -ed.

  1. simple past and past participle of gown