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Gowan   Listen
noun
Gowan  n.  
1.
The daisy, or mountain daisy. (Scot.) "And pu'd the gowans fine."
2.
(Min.) Decomposed granite.





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"Gowan" Quotes from Famous Books



... the birk, green grows, green grows the grass, Yellow on Yarrow bank the gowan, Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, Sweet the wave ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... dell, whaur I used to lie Wi' Jeanie aside me, sae sweet and sae shy! Whaur the wee white gowan wi' reid reid tips, Was as white as her cheek and as reid as her lips. Oh, her ee had a licht cam frae far 'yont the sun, And her tears cam frae deeper than salt seas run! O' the sunlicht and munelicht she was the queen, For baith war but middlin' ...
— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald
... face, and most wonderful eyes—so large, so soft, so bright, and set to perfection in her kind, good face. She was round, and fresh, and dimpled, and spoilt, most charmingly timid, most bewitchingly self-willed. She was the daughter of Mr. Meagles, and married Henry Gowan.—C. ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer


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