academic costume

noun

1. 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.

Example Sentences

One of the more ominous pictures in the collection shows a Guy dressed in academic costume burning on a bonfire in 1965.

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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.

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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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