town and gownとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

town and gown (uncountable)

1. (chiefly UK, idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) On the one hand, the members of the city, borough, or similar community near a university and, on the other hand, the students and faculty of the university itself, especially when understood as rivals in a state of tension or conflict.
   • 1856, William Makepeace Thackeray, "Codlingsby" in Burlesques:

     [H]owls, curses, flights of brickbats, stones shivering windows, groans of wounded men, cries of frightened females, cheers of either contending party as it charged the enemy from Carfax to Trumpington Street, proclaimed that the battle was at its height. In Berlin they would have said it was a revolution, and the cuirassiers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders. In Cambridge nobody heeded the disturbance—it was a Town and Gown row.

   • 1919, Booth Tarkington, chapter 14, in Ramsey Milholland:

     Everybody was quiet now, both town and gown; the students were at their dinners and so were the burghers.