Synonyms:
gown
Meaning: a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
gown
Meaning: dress in a gown
Usage examples
Every woman appeared in her finest gown.
Her gown, too, was the best she could have worn to show her charms.
Mrs. Anderson was very handsome in an elegant gown of London-smoke silk.
Mrs. Allen congratulated herself, as soon as they were seated, on having preserved her gown from injury.
With the right hand she should hold together the folds of her gown, and draw them towards the right side.
So choosing but a gown And taking but a prayer, The only raiment I should need, I struggled, and was there.
There was a difference indeed between my muslin gown and the plain black skirt and jacket, powdered with dust, which was Alice's usual costume.
She wore a simple calico gown, neat and well-fitting, and her face bore traces of much beauty that time and care had been unable wholly to efface.
This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.
For instance, our little dog comes and pulls his mistress's gown and makes significant whines, if any one is in or about the premises whom he thinks has no right to be there.