academic dress
Example Sentences
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Because of Cambridge's prestigious university, local suffrage posters often featured women in academic dress.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2018
They are the same as graduation gowns, the academic dress of Oxford students and the garments worn by many clerics.
From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2015
Last week it began to get into full academic dress for that event by announcing four important appointments at once.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fey Fellows make even more enjoyable sport when it is understood that they are really acting out parts in a prose version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in academic dress.
From Time Magazine Archive
I borrowed academic dress from Randall Peteni, a friend and fellow alumnus.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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