Definition of "gownsman" [gowns•man]

• One who wears a distinctive gown as a mark of profession or office. (noun)

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• "The gownsman and financier would find himself better off in France than elsewhere."
• "Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe and hinders action with its voluminous folds."
• "He had been reading the Report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth, and had found good things in it; but it was easy to see that he felt towards the author much as soldiers do towards the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman."