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
Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself."
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter, painted in the space of a few hours, captured his shrewd potato face, with the hair disordered and lips just parted in speech, above the subtle pink and vermilion of an academic gown.
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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