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Definition of Geneva gown
1. Noun. Black academic gown widely used by Protestant clergymen.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geneva Gown
Literary usage of Geneva gown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Companion to the Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture: Being a by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1882)
"It is probable that it was customary at this time for the preaching habit in
country churches to have been the Geneva gown, in Cathedral churches the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"So Vincent thought as he put on his Geneva gown in ; his little vestry, with the
raw February air coming in at the open window, and his sermon, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"So Vincent thought as he put on his Geneva gown in his Hule vestry, with the raw
February air coming in at the open window, «ml his sermon, which \v as dull ..."
4. Salem Chapel by Oliphant (Margaret) (1869)
"Still that was not to be helped now; there it lay, ready for utterance ; and here
in his Geneva gown, with the sound in his ears of all the stream of ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... and of citizens rendering help to the sick and wounded. See Geneva convention.
Geneva gown. See gown. Genevan (jf-ne'van), a. and n. ..."
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