A gown worn by a barrister who is not a Queen's (or King's) Counsel.
〈英〉（非王室法律顾问的律师所穿的）毛料礼服
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He had begun his practice early, and had worked in a stuff gown till he was nearly sixty.
On the morning of his appointment he met the future Viscount Melville who, he observed, had already resumed the ordinary stuff gown which advocates generally wore.
Considering their origin and their connection with the royal court it is not surprising that king's counsel should adopt some rich and foppish form of Bar dress, and like gentlemen-commoners among commoners take to a silk instead of a stuff gown.
The requirements are therefore varied as follows: Queen's Counsel wear a short wig and silk gown over a court coat; junior counsel wear a short wig and stuff gown with bands; solicitors and other advocates wear a black stuff gown and bands, but no wig.
Up to the end of the seventeenth century, any costume officially recognised, other than that in ordinary use in the Hall of the Inns of Court - the cloth or stuff gown of the Utter Barrister, and the one with the black velvet and tufts of silk which was worn by the Readers and Benchers.