| 释义 |
gowned, ppl. a.|gaʊnd|
[f. gown v. + -ed1.]
1. Dressed in a gown, in various senses of the word.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 5 A noble crew about them waited round Of sage and sober peres, all gravely gownd. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 171 The Venetians are gowned, yet by night going to visit their Mistresses, weare short Spanish cloakes. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xvii. 215 Well might all the gowned Romans fear when Pompey fled. a1764R. Lloyd Poetry Professors 113 These sons of gowned ease Proud of the plumage of Degrees. 1805Wordsw. Prelude iii. (1850) 75 Happy is the gowned youth, Who only misses what I missed. 1888A. Levy Reuben Sachs xi. 162 Their gorgeously gowned and bejewelled women.
absol.1885Century Mag. XXIX. 508 Shall we begrudge the wigged and gowned their rations of wit?
†2.
a. Used as the equivalent of L. togāta (fābula), the epithet of the class of plays that dealt with Roman characters and incidents.
b. gowned war, gowned warfare: ‘warfare’ waged in the law-courts. (Cf. gown n. 3, 4 b.) Obs.
1640Somner Antiq. Canterb. 207 One equally experienced in both warfares, the armed and gowned. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 1 Shall one sweat, Whiles his gown'd comique scene he does repeat? 1665Cowley Agric. Wks. (1684) 105 The Camps of Gowned War. |