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English
Etymology
From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic .
Pronunciation
Noun
gowan (plural gowans)
- (Northumbria) A common daisy (Bellis perennis).
1788, Robert Burns, 'Auld Lang Syne':We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin' auld lang syne.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:Upjohn wrote this slim volume, which, if you recall, was about preparatory schools, and in it, so Kipper tells me, said that the time spent in these establishments was the happiest of our lives. Ye Ed passed it on to Kipper for comment, and he, remembering the dark days at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, when he and I were plucking the gowans fine there, slated it with no uncertain hand.
1852-1859, Lady John Scott (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs:/ Like dew on the gowan lying / Is the fa' o' her fairy feet; / And like winds in summer sighing, / Her voice is low and sweet— / Her voice is low and sweet, / And she's a' the world to me, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.
- (mineralogy) Decomposed granite.
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Scots
Etymology
From the original form gollan, meaning the marsh marigold.
Noun
gowan (plural gowans)
- A common daisy (Bellis perennis).