gownd

English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: gound

Noun

gownd (plural gownds)

1. (dialectal, archaic) Nonstandard form of gown.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 22, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     “Cos,” says Jo with a perplexed stare but without being at all shaken in his certainty, “cos that there’s the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd. It is her and it an’t her. It an’t her hand, nor yet her rings, nor yet her woice. But that there’s the wale, the bonnet, and the gownd, and they're wore the same way wot she wore ’em, and it’s her height wot she wos, and she giv me a sov’ring and hooked it.”

Adjective

gownd (not comparable)

1. Archaic spelling of gowned.