mortarboard
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How to use mortarboard in a sentence
The ceremony at Georgetown University on Wednesday opened with the familiar strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” as graduates, wearing robes and mortarboards with tassels, filed into the auditorium.
Georgetown Pivot Program offers ex-inmates a fresh start | Fredrick Kunkle | June 30, 2021 | Washington PostBackstage earlier, McCaskill had given me tips on how to bobby pin the mortarboard cap to my head.
Mr. Worthington pushed back his mortarboard and revealed the crimson chevron which it had bitten into his bald brow.
Rest Harrow | Maurice HewlettA right instinct sent him tiptoe over his lawn, another made him doff his mortarboard.
Rest Harrow | Maurice HewlettAs for the mortarboard and gown, undergraduate opinion rather requires that they be left behind.
An American at Oxford | John Corbin
British Dictionary definitions for mortarboard
/ (ˈmɔːtəˌbɔːd) /
a black tasselled academic cap with a flat square top covered with cloth
Also called: hawk a small square board with a handle on the underside for carrying mortar
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