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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- gown [gaun]
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1.
noun
[c]
(dress) 礼服
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2.
noun
[BRIT]
[of teacher, judge]
礼袍
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1.
noun
[c]
(dress) 礼服
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- gown [gaυn]
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1.
n
any of various outer garments, such as a woman's elegant or formal dress, a dressing robe, or a protective garment, esp one worn by surgeons during operations
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2.
n
a loose wide garment indicating status, such as worn by academics
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3.
n
the members of a university as opposed to the other residents of the university town - Compare town
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4.
vt.
[tr]
to supply with or dress in a gown
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5.
vt.
[Etymology]
C14: from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna garment made of leather or fur, of Celtic origin
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1.
n
any of various outer garments, such as a woman's elegant or formal dress, a dressing robe, or a protective garment, esp one worn by surgeons during operations
Examples
- a baccalaureate gown
- 学士服 → baccalaureate
- a becoming gown
- 一件合身的长外衣 → becoming
- conflicts between town and gown
- 城镇居民和大学师生之间的冲突 → gown
- She appeared at the door dressed in a coffee colored silk dressing gown.
- 她穿了一件咖啡色的绸缎睡衣出现在门口。
- a gold lamé gown → lamé
- 褒衣博带
- a loose gown with wide girdle → 褒
- 短褂儿
- short gown → 褂
- 他穿着那件大褂显着土得很。
- He looks very rustic in his gown. → 土
- 这件棉袍太脏了, 应该洗洗了。
- This cotton-padded gown is too dirty, and should have a wash. → 棉袍
- 她身穿旗袍, 手持檀香扇的样子特别文雅。
- She looks very elegant in a mandarin gown and with a sandalwood fan in her hand. → 檀香扇
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