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With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was up soon after seven; and while the gownsmen were rising and in their respective chapels, he had been round Magdalen Walk and Christ Church Meadow.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry

One by one the gownsmen dodged like rabbits into their holes, leaving me, who knew nothing of the city, almost alone.

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines

What the gownsmen intended for a frolic developed into a riot, thanks to the national love of a row and the complicated feuds which were continually breaking forth.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

The High Street had been repeatedly lined with bayonets in order to keep down the disaffected gownsmen; and traitors pursued by the messengers of the government had been concealed in the garrets of several colleges.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron