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adjectivegowany (comparative more gowany, superlative most gowany)
comparative more gowany · superlative most gowany
- ScotlandCovered with daisies.
Sweeter than gowany glens or new-mawn hay.
1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd1 more example
When the gowany braes / Were our temple o' joy and glee, / Some dour auld body would shake his head, / And tell us our gladness away would flee […]
'a. 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)
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