academic gown

Example Sentences

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The price covers the student's ticket, academic gown hire, a souvenir brochure and access to a 90-minute garden party.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2022

Mounting the platform steps to get an LL.D. degree, he had caught his foot in the hem of his purple-trimmed academic gown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Heat shimmered over a brick high school in Mobile, Ala. A proctor in academic gown looked bored, listened to the scratching of a couple of pens.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile away.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul had planned to march with the college women, so she was wearing her black academic gown.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling