Middle English Dictionary Entry
gǒune n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gǒune n. Also goun, gune, gwn. |
| Etymology | OF gone, goune & ML gunna, gouna. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An outer garment, a robe, gown; long ~, short ~, childes ~, womman ~; (b) a coat or cloak worn out-of-doors to cover one's clothing, armor, etc.; (c) an official or distinguishing robe; the robe of a monk, a guildsman, an alderman; a Roman toga; livere ~, a guildsman's robe; (d) night ~, a dressing robe; (e) ~ cloth, a piece of cloth for a robe or livery.
Associated quotations
a
- (1366) Will York in Sur.Soc.481 : Item lego Roberto de coquina unum longum gune de russet.
- (1375) Doc.in Bentley Excerpta Hist.24 : Lego Sare..unum goune de viride et unam tunicam.
- (c1380) Stonor Suppl.2 : To sendall gownys, to redde gownis, and a motley gown.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.93 : Short was his gowne, with sleues longe and wyde.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.391 : He rood vpon a rouncy as he kouthe, In a gowne of faldyng to the knee.
- (c1390) Chart.Abbey HG (LdMisc 210)342 : Þat tyme were no furred gounes ne pricked paltokys.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.418,419 : Ther is also costlewe furrynge in hire gownes..forth with the superfluitee in lengthe of the forseide gownes trailynge in the dong.
- (1397) Doc.in Dugdale Monasticon 4194 : Quod non utantur..aliguabus jupis, Anglice gounes, ad modum mulierum sæcularium.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.162 : Charite..is as gladde of a goune of a graye russet As of a tunicle of tarse.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1568 : He shal be gered ful gaye in gounes of porpre.
- (1411) Will in Bk.Lond.E.216/18 : Y be-queþe to herry cole a blewe gownne and peyr of Rede hosyn.
- (1418) Will in Bk.Lond.E.218/23 : I bequethe to William Mymmes a goune, and to anneys ys wyfe a goune.
- (1421) Indent.Catterick in Archaeol.J.758 : Nich' and his felaws schall' pay..to ye forsaides Th' Joh'n & Rob't cclx marc' of Sterlynges, And ilkan of yaim ilka ȝere a govnne acordande to ȝare de gree.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)66a/b : Toga: a kuuerlyte or a gowne.
- (1431-2) EEWills91/10 : To Ione my dowter, a blew gounne and a grene kyrtyll.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)120/19 : O prest..takyng hir be þe coler of þe gowne, seyd, 'þu wolf, what is þis cloth þat þu hast on?'
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.805 : Gownis of scarlet furrid with hermyn.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)206 : Gowne, garment: Toga, epitogium.
- (?1449) Paston2.102 : As for the child is gwnys..I wel do hem maken.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)63/4 : Men that wered to shorte gownes and shewed her brechis.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)65/21 : This woman had tenne diuerse gownes and as mani cotes.
- (1462) Acc.Howard in RC 57149 : Item. ffor makynge off a long gown and lynynge the slevys, ij s.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1178/8 : He rode streyt unto quene Gwenyver and made caste a kurdyll and a gown uppon her.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.37b : Item, iiii long Gownes; Item, vi short Gownes; Item, iiii women Gownes.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)904 : Than knele a down..to youre souerayn ye say 'Syr, what Robe or govn pleseth it yow to were to day?'
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) Ctn.(Hrl 2261)444 : Wyclef..drawede to hym.. felawes of the same secte dwellynge in Oxenforde, goynge barefote with longe gownes of russet.
- a1500 Galawnt pride (RwlPoet 34)18 : Butt galauntt bachelers ther be fele; Theyre gownys be sett with plytys fele; To schortt yt ys theyre kneys to hele.
b
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)4527 : Doþ of ȝour govnes ech man asonder, & y wil se ȝour wede an vnder.
- (1400) Will York in Sur.Soc.4512 : j goune rubei pro equitatione.
- (1400) Will York in Sur.Soc.4517 : Willelmo Craven, pellipario, pro furura j goune equit., xiij d.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)10a/a : Birrum: a gowne.
- c1450(?1436) Siege Calais (Rome 1306)116 : There myght men see Archers gode Cast away bothe gowne and hode, The better forto shote.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1637 : Sonne bare þay thorgh þe gown, And braste his bright habirgeon.
- c1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)610 : Gay gowuns of grene To hold þayre armur clene, And were hitte fro þe wete.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)2/25 : Fovrty men of armes with habyrdions undre their govnes.
- 1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)18/22 : Kynge Arthur..had under his gowne a jesseraunte of double maylle.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)31/262 : Now my gowne will I cast, and wyrk in my cote.
c
- ?c1335 Heil seint Michel (Hrl 913)p.155 : Hail be ȝe, gilmins, wiþ ȝur blake gunes!
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.243 : Virgil clepeþ the Romayns togati; þat beeþ men i-cloþed in gownes. Þre manere gownes þey vsede and were i-hote, Pretextata, Palmata, Candidata.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.293 : He was i-cloþed in a consuls gowne [L trabea consulari].
- (1428) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)180/7 : In our tyme was John Markanouo grauntud to be as a broder of our Company and haffe þe leuerey gowne or hode.
- c1450 Lond.Chron.Cleo.(Cleo C.4)134 : The craftes roode ayenst hem in white gounys, embroudered euery craft with diuerse poyses.
- (1486) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8553 : The Maire and Aldermen, cled in long gownys of skarlet, and othre of the Couneseil..have be accustumed to wait of kinges in lykwise commyng to the citie.
d
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)15 : The Kyng..ther stondyng in his nyght gowne, all unclothid save his shirt, his cape, his combe, his coverchif, his furrid pynsons..cast offe his nyght gowne for to have gone to bedd.
e
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.2247 : I koude telle for a gowne clooth..How that this fart sholde euene ydeled be.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.167/834 : His Felawes dede ȝeven to hym a goune clothe of þe lyuere of Brewers Craffte.
- (a1432) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xxii : Richard..wold have yeven her a goun cloth, with that she wolde have assented to be a bawde.
- (1433) Doc.Merchant York in Sur.Soc.12940 : Item, payde to Sir William Ottlay for his goune clothe, in the yere past, vj s. viij d.
- (1452) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1337 : The said prouost shal yif to the said Robert lyncoln yerly duryng his lyf a gownecloth in sute with his gentilmen.
- (1461) Will York in Sur.Soc.30256 : Lego uxori Ricardi Asper j gown clothe.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57553 : He must have ij gowne clothes of my master.
- (1468-72) Stonor1.99 : Takyng for his labur xiij s. iiij d., and a goune cloth.
- (1475) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.638 : I sende unto you..a gown clath of sich poor liveray as we use to yiff.