English

gownmaking

From gown + making.

A compound of gown + making

Proto-Slavic *guna ‘coarse fur clothing’

Late Latin gunna ‘leather garment, a fur’

Old French goune

Anglo-Norman goune

Middle English gowne ‘a gown or robe’

English gown

Old English macung

Middle English making

Today it means

noun The manufacture of gowns.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / gownmaking