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academicals

British  
/ ˌækəˈdɛmɪkəlz /

plural noun

  1. another term for academic dress

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On second thoughts, however, he threw his academicals back on to the sofa and went to his book-case.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

The picture is not complete without the 'men,' all in their academicals, as it is Sunday.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

Next morning Dr. Rowlands, in full academicals, sailed into the fourth-form room.

From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

I must rush down to the station and meet her—in full academicals, velvet sleeves and all, for a Proctor must never be seen in the morning in mufti.

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

Wesleyan proctor, delighting in black gowns, stopping by mistake a Quaker Freshman, with a reproof for being in broad-brim instead of academicals, and being answered with "Friend, I am not of thy persuasion!"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

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