academic gown

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a long, wide-sleeved outer garment worn as part of the academic costume.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

Do you think academic history and popular history have gotten more similar over the last 15 or 20 years?
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Are you seeing more commercial pressure from academic presses for historians to sexy it up a bit?
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Their claims have led to both academic controversy and localized conflict.
The Himalayas’ Hidden Aryans|Nina Strochlic|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
Pope Francis Denounces the Vatican Elite’s 'Spiritual Alzheimer’s'|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Academic freedom has been a hot debate within education circles.
Prof: MIT Hospitalized Me For Ferguson Tweets|Nina Strochlic|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
And then indeed he put on his night-gown, and went to Smithfield, the place where his relation dwelt.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
She was in a soiled dressing gown of purple flannel, with several of the buttons off.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
She wore a gown of white tulle upon whose floating surface were a few dark-blue lilies.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Her head, set off by her dainty white gown, suggested a rich, rare blossom.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin