gowned

English

Alternative forms

• gownd (archaic)

Etymology

From gown +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊnd/
• Rhymes: -aʊnd
• Homophone: gound

Adjective

gowned (not comparable)

1. Wearing a gown.

   Synonym: begowned

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 18, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

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

   • 1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2:

     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 […].

   • 2001, Patricia Ismond, “Society and Nationhood in the Caribbean: Towards Another Life”, in Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 258:

     Pirates, buccaneers, the gowned ladies of the ancient pastoral – all the traditional subjects of imperial history – are among the images that take shape.

Derived terms

• ungowned

Related terms

• ball-gowned, ballgowned
• bedgowned, bed-gowned
• begowned, be-gowned
• dressing-gowned
• evening-gowned
• nightgowned, night-gowned
• surgical-gowned, surgically gowned
• tea-gowned, teagowned
• well-gowned

 

Verb

gowned

1. simple past and past participle of gown

Anagrams

• wonged