Definition of "gowans" [gowans]

• Plural form of gowan. (noun)

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• "The day had been sultry, and the moon rose slowly over the mounds of Maiden Bower, once the site of the noble mansion of the Percys, now destroyed and desolate; [2] and fell in dreary softness on tower and wood, illumining the sable firs of Newby Park, and throwing another lustre on the gaudy "gowans" that decked the adjacent meadow."
• "The archaic sound of the Lowland Scots phrases—"we twa hae run about the braes/ and pu't the gowans fine"—gives it the ring of something both ancient and familiar, just as the song itself is about distance and proximity, about the faraway friend and the one raising a glass with you now."
• "There's also a modest bunch of pressed wildflowers she and Nathaniel picked on Burns's Mossgiel Farm—the wild daisies, or gowans, of "Auld Lang Syne.""