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noun
a long, wide-sleeved outer garment worn as part of the academic costume.
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How to use academic gown in a sentence

  • Enter a tall figure in a long black academic gown and black clothes.

    A Student in Arms|Donald Hankey
  • Invested with the academic gown and cap, I repaired in due form at the appointed hour to the Senate Chamber.

    Our Hundred Days in Europe|Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • When I saw him sitting at his window he always wore a wig, and few had seen him without his wig and without his academic gown.

    My Autobiography|F. Max Mller
  • He was habited, although in his own house, in the academic gown to which his long residence in Oxford had accustomed him.

    For the Faith|Evelyn Everett-Green
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