Lexicographical Neighbors of Gowlands
Literary usage of Gowlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"Providentially no lives were lost; and Mr. Chappel, the renter of an estate called
gowlands, upon which four of the destroyed cottages stood, sue(‘ceded in ..."
2. Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (1888)
"... setter-off to features beyond all the gowlands and Olympian dews in the world.
Here hypocrisy is lawful. And in this way a woman displays after the best ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"... be a young grasshopper produced by the saliva of the Gowk or cuckoo. See the
second Brock. gowlands, s. pi. corn marigolds. ' As yellow as a gowland,' ..."
4. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"To GOUL or GOAL, to blow in strong draughts, as wind through a narrow passage.
A GOWK, a fool: also a term for the cuckoo. gowlands, corn marigolds. ..."
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