Word Finder - gown

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A loose, flowing upper garment.

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A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.

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The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.

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(by metonymy) The university community.

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In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.

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A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.

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Any sort of dress or garb.

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The robe worn by a surgeon.

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To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

She's in a night gown, in bed.

Can I go gown shopping with you?

Clothed in a plain black gown, he assisted at Parker's consecration, in spite of the facts that he had himself been deprived, and did not resume his bishopric, and that his original appointment had been by the uncanonical method of letters patent.

Inside was the most beautiful gown she'd ever seen in a mysterious shade of dark blue sprinkled with silver sequins.

The first person Rostov met in the officers' ward was a thin little man with one arm, who was walking about the first room in a nightcap and hospital dressing gown, with a pipe between his teeth.

In 1782 he obtained a silk gown, and was so far cured of his early modesty that he declined accepting the king's counselship if precedence over him were given to his junior, Thomas (afterwards Lord) Erskine, though the latter was the son of a peer and a most accomplished orator.

The door opened and the old prince, in a dressing gown and a white nightcap, came in.

He was lying in a squirrel-fur dressing gown on a divan, surrounded by pillows.

In the Church of England the cassock, which with the gown is prescribed by the above-mentioned canon of 1604 as the canonical dress of the clergy, has been continuously, though not universally, worn by the clergy since the Reformation.

Alondra was dressed in a pale yellow gown that did wonders for her thin figure and highlighted her flawless complexion.

She left the apartment and walked down the silent halls, turning down the hall with the common areas in time to see the back of a silk ball gown disappear into opened doors.

The maiden's gown was soft as satin and fell about her in ample folds, while dainty lace-like traceries trimmed the bodice and sleeves.

When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his son, sat at the table writing.

Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white dressing gown looked out.

Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since he had left.

Come out in your dressing gown! said Natasha's voice.

Toward midnight, after he had left the countess' apartments, he was sitting upstairs in a shabby dressing gown, copying out the original transaction of the Scottish lodge of Freemasons at a table in his low room cloudy with tobacco smoke, when someone came in.

At first she heard only Metivier's voice, then her father's, then both voices began speaking at the same time, the door was flung open, and on the threshold appeared the handsome figure of the terrified Metivier with his shock of black hair, and the prince in his dressing gown and fez, his face distorted with fury and the pupils of his eyes rolled downwards.

Natasha, on the other hand, having put on her best gown, was in the highest spirits.

Natasha, smoothing her gown, went in with Sonya and sat down, scanning the brilliant tiers of boxes opposite.

Natasha had not time to take off the bodice before the door opened and Countess Bezukhova, dressed in a purple velvet gown with a high collar, came into the room beaming with good-humored amiable smiles.

Boris, coolly looking at Helene's dazzling bare shoulders which emerged from a dark, gold-embroidered, gauze gown, talked to her of old acquaintances and at the same time, unaware of it himself and unnoticed by others, never for an instant ceased to observe the Emperor who was in the same room.

But as soon as Pierre turned toward him he wrapped his dressing gown around him with a shamefaced and angry look and hurried away.

Swaying from side to side on his long, thin legs in his fluttering dressing gown, this lunatic was running impetuously, his gaze fixed on Rostopchin, shouting something in a hoarse voice and making signs to him to stop.

His dressing gown was unfastened, his face red and distorted.

While Pierre was running the few steps that separated him from the Frenchman, the tall marauder in the frieze gown was already tearing from her neck the necklace the young Armenian was wearing, and the young woman, clutching at her neck, screamed piercingly.

He kept one hand, in which he clasped his tobacco pouch, inside the bosom of his dressing gown and held the stem of his pipe firmly with the other.

She still wore the gown, though strands of hair blinded her and she knew her pillow would be filled with makeup.

Sofia sat down on the bed, careful to keep the blood from her gown, and touched the woman's face, bracing herself.

The papery hospital gown was rough beneath her palms, the dark room too cold.

He could picture her, holding the hem of her gown, climbing onto the chair, perhaps even smiling, before kicking it away, and waiting the few agonizing moments until death took her hand and led her to its darkness.

Dean hoped Edith would tell the old witch where to stuff it, but instead she looked as if she had just won an auction bid for a coronation gown.

I'd kill the pair of them, if I hadn't already bought my wedding gown.

She wore a flowing, diaphanous gown and had long, wavy, bronze colored hair.

The full-length, sequined halter gown she wore clung to every curve and sported slits on both sides clear up to the hip.

Crimson painted toes and fingernails matched the gown perfectly.

Carmen sat up in the bed, holding the sheet securely over her gown.

She sighed and stood, removing her clothes and donning a night gown.

Clarissa sat her chair like a queen on a throne, the toe of a red pump and a white plaster clad foot peeping out from under her long gown.

The surplice is not used, the ministers conducting the ordinary services and preaching in a black gown, of the 16th-century type, with white bands or ruff.

In the "Reformed" Churches the minister wears the black "Geneva" gown with bands.

On the king's birthday each bedesman received a new blue gown, a loaf, a bottle of ale, and a leathern purse containing a penny for every year of the king's life.

The "black gown," considered wrongly as the ensign of Low Church views, survives in comparatively few of even "evangelical" churches; it is still, however, the custom for preachers of university sermons to wear the gown of their degree.

The fur upon the flanks is longer and white with very pronounced markings of dark spots, and this part of the skin is generally worked separately from the rest and is very effective for gown trimmings.

Where the fear of the persecutor was absent he was also clad in a black gown.

Katie moved toward them steadily, self-conscious in the snug teal gown that displayed the curves the slender women around her didn't have.

I am selling two ball gowns 1. A long purple, backless, strapless satin gown with diamante detail - has a short train.

Dress will be gown and hood, with doctors wearing scarlet.

She had changed her gown for a house dress as fresh and elegant as the other.

What? asked both princesses when they saw for a moment at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice.