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单词 town and gown
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town and gown
9. Chiefly without article. Originally in Oxford and Cambridge: the inhabitants of a university town as distinguished from members of the university itself. Frequently in town and gown. Cf. gown n. 5.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to university > collectively
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1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 446/1 in Chron. I The Queene..roade to Aberdine, the king being then come vnto hir, where by the Towne and Vniuersitie, they were receyued with great ioy.
a1647 P. Pette in Archaeologia (1796) 12 218 I was forced,..my graces for Bachelor of Arts being passed both in house and town, to abandon the university.
1750 in Student (1751) 2 No. 6. 226 A very singular gallant, a sort of mungrel between town and gown.
1764 Candid Remonstr. to Vice-chancellor & Members University 4 I..exerted all my Powers for reconciling and confirming a lasting Alliance between Town and Gown.
1828 Sporting Mag. 21 428 Parties of five or six, both ‘gown’ and ‘town’, were parading abreast.
1839 T. Hood Lament Toby in Hood's Own 540 Farewell to ‘Town!’ farewell to ‘Gown!’ I've quite outgrown the latter.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xi. 200 I wish..to disclaim..all sympathy with town and gown rows.
1911–12 Kelly's Oxf. Directory 2/2 In 1354 a desperate Gown and Town riot began on St. Scholastica's day, February 10th, and lasted three days, during which 40 students and 60 townsmen lost their lives.
1977 Belfast Tel. 28 Feb. 3/9 Hopefully the show will be supported both by town and gown.
2005 Ho Peng Yoke Reminisc. Roving Scholar ii. 60 The most important chess event for me then was the annual Town versus Gown match.
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