academic gown

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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

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

Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself."

From Time Magazine Archive

With an intimation of the coming romantic age, he cloaks himself in an academic gown, accouters himself with a book, and poses against pictures whose gilt edges focus attention especially on his eyes.

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