"gownsman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gown + -s- + man.",
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      "form": "gownsmen",
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      "form": "gownman",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The two gownsmen lowered the rigid body. It lay straight as a board, supported by no more than its head on the chair-back, and its heels on the ground.",
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      "glosses": [
        "One whose professional habit is a gown, such as a divine, a lawyer, or a member of certain English universities."
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        {
          "word": "gownie"
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      "glosses": [
        "A civilian, in distinction from a soldier."
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        "(archaic) A civilian, in distinction from a soldier."
      ],
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        "archaic"
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  "word": "gownsman"
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  "etymology_text": "From gown + -s- + man.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "(archaic) A civilian, in distinction from a soldier."
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