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Gownman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One whose professional habit is a gown.

2. The gownman learn'ed.

3. One devoted to the arts of peace.

Gownman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.