Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gown or dress of a lawyer.
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Examples
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The pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
Waverley 2004
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The pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
The Waverley 1877
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From this it may be inferred that (regard being had to change in value of money) a bar-gown at the close of the seventeenth century cost about ten times as much as it does at the present time.
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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Aston, dressed in a bar-gown, whose father had formerly been Master of the Plea Office in the King's Bench.
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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The pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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The pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often hung over a blazing uniform.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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If Ireland does not aflame the language and conduct ef Nortk America, the fan It will not reft with Mr. Dobbs, who feems ready to dye his bar-gown red to obtain a nominal diminutive independency* which could not perhaps be permanent.
The Monthly Review 1780
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a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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