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語源

From gown +‎ -ed.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʊnd/
• 韻: -aʊnd
• Homophone: gound

形容詞

gowned (not comparable)

1. Wearing a gown.

   Synonym: begowned

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 18, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

     Deliberately, almost ‘augustly,’ the gowned and mortar-boarded figures followed one another through the great red turnstile and filed into the chamber beyond.

   • 1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2:

     The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].

   • 2001, Patricia Ismond, “Society and Nationhood in the Caribbean: Towards Another Life”, in Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 258:

     Pirates, buccaneers, the gowned ladies of the ancient pastoral – all the traditional subjects of imperial history – are among the images that take shape.

派生語

• ungowned

関連する語

動詞

gowned

1. simple past and past participle of gown

アナグラム

• wonged