gownless

English

Etymology

From gown +‎ -less.

Adjective

gownless (not comparable)

  1. Without a gown.
    • 1895, Thomas Hardy, “II-vi”, in Jude the Obscure, London: Osgood:
      [T]wo devil-may-care young men who proved to be gownless undergraduates[.]
      This is the earliest attestation of the term listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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