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GOWNED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gowned mean?
• GOWNED (adjective)
The adjective GOWNED has 1 sense:
1. wearing a gown
Familiarity information: GOWNED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing a gown
Context example:
beautifully gowned women
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Once, walking with Lizzie toward night school, she caught a glance directed toward him by a well-gowned, handsome woman of the bourgeoisie.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Five hundred fashionably gowned women turned their heads, so intent and steadfast was Martin's gaze, to see what he was seeing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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