(n.) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
(n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military.
(n.) A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
(n.) Any sort of dress or garb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(2) This training program served to further emphasize the importance of using proper aseptic gowning technique.
(3) Experimental subjects desired fewer changes in exam procedures than control subjects, indicating that the gown provided them with an overall more comfortable experience.
(4) There were 102 infants in the gowning group and 100 infants in the nongowning group.
(5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
(6) Of 110 blood contacts among surgeons, 81 (74%) were potentially preventable by additional barrier precautions, such as face shields and fluid-resistant gowns.
(7) The first lady resented the governor’s prohibition on using his donor lists to market her nutritional supplements, he testified, and she reacted with anger when an adviser told her that she should not accept Williams’ offer to buy her an Oscar de la Renta gown to wear to the governor’s inauguration.
(8) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
(9) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
(10) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
(11) He was a loving and caring young man according to his grandmother,” Johnson said in a Facebook post that showed Robinson smiling in a bright red graduation cap and gown.
(12) Isolation gowns have traditionally been used in health care situations to protect against microbial contamination.
(13) I got a Chewbacca, a Leia-in-the-white-gown and an orange-suited Luke Skywalker.
(14) Who cares who spent what on a pasta bake and whether or not you're allowed to claim for a dressing gown?
(15) Two thirds of the increase (64%) was due to rubber gloves and an additional 25% was due to disposable isolation gowns.
(16) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(17) It is quite satisfactory for preventing operators from soiling their feet and their gowns.
(18) The results of the study demonstrated not only significant reduction in wound infection rates but also major cost savings when a disposable gown and drape system was used in the operating room.
(19) Eight NICU required routine gowning on entry, two restricted sibling visiting and four restricted visiting by relatives and friends.
(20) Other precautions included the use of Charnley gowns with a body exhaust system, special draping of the patient, and preoperative culture of the urine.
Manteau
Definition:
(n.) A woman's cloak or mantle.
(n.) A gown worn by women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistically significantly better results (P < 0.05) were achieved with either a symmetric or porte manteau construct.
(2) You can’t even see my body shape in these loose clothes.” “I know, but this is not a manteau.” We argued politely for a while as she showered me with her khanoumis and khanoumams .
(3) All twenty-four patients in this series underwent posterior cervical plating with either an asymmetric (8), symmetric (9) or porte manteau (7) construct.
(4) While wearing the traditional chador, which covers women from head to toe, was the norm in the initial years after the revolution, most women are now wearing the Iranian-style manteau, a jacket worn below the knees, and a looser-fitting headscarf.