Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dressed in a gown; clad.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gown .
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- adjective wearing a gown
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Examples
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The women were gowned beautifully, I admit; but to my naive surprise I discovered that they were of the same clay as all the rest of the women I had known down below in the cellar.
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It is true, these beautifully gowned, beautiful women prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities; but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic.
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And the crazy family stuff, complete with a motherly white-haired and gowned Sherri Moon, seems to be an amalgamation of queues from FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, and PSYCHO.
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Perhaps it was with the hope of narrowing it that she yielded to his persuasions to go to night school and business college and to have herself gowned by a wonderful dressmaker who charged outrageous prices.
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Still, she thinks her winged, gowned angel, with hands clasped in prayer, can become an icon around the country.
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There was one doctor with his back to the door and two additional figures, gowned and masked passing instruments in response to barked instructions.
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There was one doctor with his back to the door and two additional figures, gowned and masked passing instruments in response to barked instructions.
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The operating theatre, Cho gowned and chatty, the nurse counting backwards with him from one hundred.
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There was one doctor with his back to the door and two additional figures, gowned and masked passing instruments in response to barked instructions.
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Emily Travis was dainty and delicate and rare, and whether in London or Klondike she gowned herself as befitted the daughter of a millionnaire mining engineer.
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