academic dress
Example Sentences
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Because of Cambridge's prestigious university, local suffrage posters often featured women in academic dress.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2018
They are the same as graduation gowns, the academic dress of Oxford students and the garments worn by many clerics.
From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2015
At George Washington University in the 1960s, when the academic dress code was being cracked at every turn, he would show up in class in a jacket and tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fey Fellows make even more enjoyable sport when it is understood that they are really acting out parts in a prose version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in academic dress.
From Time Magazine Archive
I borrowed academic dress from Randall Peteni, a friend and fellow alumnus.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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