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View synonyms for academic costume
academic costume
noun
- the ceremonial garb of the students and faculty in schools, colleges, and universities, consisting of a flat cap (mortarboard), a long, wide-sleeved gown, and sometimes a hood, worn especially at commencement exercises.
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One of the more ominous pictures in the collection shows a Guy dressed in academic costume burning on a bonfire in 1965.
From BBC
Here, on the afternoon of Show Sunday, which comes immediately before Commemoration Day, nearly all the members of the university and the students, in academic costume, make a promenade, presenting an animated scene.
From Project Gutenberg
From this building came out two young men in academic costume.
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There might be a uniform or an academic costume for these critical scholars—say Shakspearian collars, Undergraduate gown, and portable mortar-board, to fold up, and be sat upon.
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On Tuesday last they came accordingly in full academic costume.
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