green gown
green gown noun: a dress that has been stained green from rolling in the grass; generally with allusion to sexual activity, especially a woman's loss of virginity.
Noun
green gown (plural green gowns)
- A dress that has been stained green from rolling in the grass; generally with allusion to sexual activity, especially a woman's loss of virginity.
- Oh, a morning to tempt Ioue frõ his Ningle Ganimed, vvhich is but to giue Dary VVenches greene govvnes as they are going a milking; […]1604 or 1605 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Second Part of The Honest Whore, […], London: […] Elizabeth All-de, for Nathaniel Butter, published 1630, →OCLC, Act I, signature A2, recto
- Sometimes they lie open and are most tractable and coming, apt, yielding, and willing to embrace, to take a green gown, with that shepherdess in Theocritus, Idyll. 27, to let their coats, etc. […]1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 2...
Forms of green gown
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Questions about green gown
- What does green gown mean?
- Green gown means a dress that has been stained green from rolling in the grass; generally with allusion to sexual activity, especially a woman's loss of virginity.
- What part of speech is green gown?
- Green gown is a noun.
- What is the plural of green gown?
- The plural of green gown is green gowns.
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