academicals
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Next morning Dr Rowlands, in full academicals, sailed into the fourth-form room.
From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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
Next morning Dr. Rowlands, in full academicals, sailed into the fourth-form room.
From Eric by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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
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
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