† red-gown(d, -gowm Obs.
Forms: 5 red gownd, 6 reed gounde, 7 red gowm, 9 gown.
[App. f. red a. + gound n., but perh. an alteration, by popular etym., of radegound.]
= red gum, red-gum1.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 426/2 Red-gownd, sekenesse of yonge chyldryne, scrophulus. 1530 Palsgr. 261/2 Reed gounde sicknesse of chyldren. 1657 C. Beck Univ. Char. K iij b, Red gum or red gowm a sickness in Children. 1678 Littleton Lat. Dict., Strophulus, Red-gowm, a sickness of young children. 1812–20 Thompson Cullen's Nosol. Meth. (ed. 3) 321 Strophulus intertinctus, the red gum or gown, occurs chiefly within..the two first months after birth. |