GOWN

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Traducere în limba română

gown I. substantiv

1. rochie.

2. mantie, pelerină; robă; (înv.) togă romană;

town and gown populaţia oraşului Oxford sau Cambridge, inclusiv profesorii şi studenţii universităţii;

arms and gown militarii şi civilii;

(lit.) to give up the gown for the sword a părăsi roba şi a lua arma;

he will lose his gown îşi va pierde postul;

man of the gown v. gownsman.

gown II. verb A. tranzitiv

a îmbrăca cu o robă.

gown II. verb B. intranzitiv

(despre magistraţi, profesori etc.) a pune / a îmbrăca roba.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

After another and a final squeeze with both arms, she got down from the cart and ran away; and, my belief is, and has always been, without a solitary button on her gown.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Dressing-gown and dress were both in their places.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“Stay though, my friend, it was his gown,” objected Alleyne.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes was seated at his side-table clad in his dressing-gown, and working hard over a chemical investigation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What an odd gown she has got on!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

And I could take the pattern gown home any day.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Has not Miss Crawford a gown something the same?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them," added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Nothing escaped HER minute observation and general curiosity; she saw every thing, and asked every thing; was never easy till she knew the price of every part of Marianne's dress; could have guessed the number of her gowns altogether with better judgment than Marianne herself, and was not without hopes of finding out before they parted, how much her washing cost per week, and how much she had every year to spend upon herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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