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Gown vs Tux - What's the difference?

gown | tux |

As nouns the difference between gown and tux

is that gown is a loose, flowing upper garment while tux is a tuxedo.

As a verb gown

is to dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

As a proper noun Tux is

a cuddly cartoon penguin, the official Linux mascot.

gown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loose, flowing upper garment.
  • A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  • The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  • # The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
  • (by metonymy) The university community.
    • In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.
  • A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  • Any sort of dress or garb.
  • The robe worn by a surgeon.

    • Derived terms

    * dressing gown * town and gown

    Verb

  • To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

    • References

    Anagrams

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    tux

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (colloquial) A tuxedo.
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes .