Town and Gown Row (A)
.A collision, often leading to a fight, in the English universities between the students or gownsmen, and non-gownsmen—principally bargees and roughs. (See Philistines.)
A collision, often leading to a fight, in the English universities between the students or gownsmen, and non-gownsmen—principally bargees and roughs. (See Philistines.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.