academicals
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Next morning Dr. Rowlands, in full academicals, sailed into the fourth-form room.
From Eric by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
The picture is not complete without the 'men,' all in their academicals, as it is Sunday.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
Wesleyan proctor, delighting in black gowns, stopping by mistake a Quaker Freshman, with a reproof for being in broad-brim instead of academicals, and being answered with "Friend, I am not of thy persuasion!"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
On second thoughts, however, he threw his academicals back on to the sofa and went to his book-case.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
I must rush down to the station and meet her—in full academicals, velvet sleeves and all, for a Proctor must never be seen in the morning in mufti.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
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