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† red-gown(d, -gowm Obs.
Forms: 5 red gownd, 6 reed gounde, 7 red gowm, 9 gown.
[App. f. red a. + gound n., but perh. an alteration, by popular etym., of radegound.]
= red gum, red-gum1.
c1440Promp. Parv. 426/2 Red-gownd, sekenesse of yonge chyldryne, scrophulus. 1530Palsgr. 261/2 Reed gounde sicknesse of chyldren. 1657C. Beck Univ. Char. K iij b, Red gum or red gowm a sickness in Children. 1678Littleton Lat. Dict., Strophulus, Red-gowm, a sickness of young children. 1812–20Thompson Cullen's Nosol. Meth. (ed. 3) 321 Strophulus intertinctus, the red gum or gown, occurs chiefly within..the two first months after birth. |