gownless

English

Etymology

From gown +‎ -less.

Adjective

gownless (not comparable)

1. Without a gown.
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-vi”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:

     [T]wo devil-may-care young men who proved to be gownless undergraduates[.]

     This is the earliest attestation of the term listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.