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GREEN GOWN

Specialty Definition: GREEN GOWN

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Green Gown (A). A tousel in the new-mown hay. To "give one a green gown" sometimes means to go beyond the bounds of innocent playfulness.
"Had any dared to give her [Narcissa] a green gown,
The fair had petrifled him with a frown ...
Pure as the snow was she, and cold as ice."
Peter Pindar: Old Simon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

GREEN GOWN. To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her on the grass. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GREEN GOWN

Specialty definitions using "GREEN GOWN": Petticoat and Gown. (references)

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Anagrams: GREEN GOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-n-n-o-r-w"

-2 letters: engorge.

-3 letters: erenow, renown, wonner.

-4 letters: egger, genre, genro, goner, gorge, green, grego, grown, newer, ngwee, owner, renew, rewon, rowen, wrong.

-5 letters: eger, enow, ergo, erne, ewer, gene, goer, gone, gong, gore, gown, gree, grew, grog, grow, nene, neon, nogg, none, ogee, ogre, ween, weer, were, wore, worn, wren.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GREEN GOWN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 52 45 45 4E      47 4F 57 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010010 01000101 01000101 01001110 00100000 01000111 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#71 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0045 0045 004E      0047 004F 0057 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4152393948241495748

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