academic gown
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Hockney wore a gold lamé jacket at the ceremony, under the traditional academic gown.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
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
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
The academic gown, once worn every day for warmth in unheated northern European universities, needs restyling each 50 years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy.
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
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