geneva gown

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   black academic gown widely used by Protestant clergymen

   Broaderacademic gown

Questions about geneva gown

What does geneva gown mean?

geneva gown means "black academic gown widely used by Protestant clergymen".

Is geneva gown a common word?

geneva gown is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.