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- verb to
gown , dress in a gown
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Examples
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We perhaps give them more than their share to spend, and more of luxury than is good for them; and all too many of the underbred among them paint and bejewel and begown themselves to imitate the lecherous barbarism of the too free.
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886
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The zear of thys prefent copot & kaledar qwych as begown to hauc cowrs the fyrft day of ianuer ys.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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